"Come, sit up.

Let me talk to you." "Oh, Ben, something terrible _has_ happened," she cried.

"It's in _me_! I don't know what it is.

But it'll kill me." "I know," he replied, as her head fell upon his shoulder.

"Miss Collie, I'm an old fellow that's had everythin' happen to him, an' I'm livin' yet, tryin' to help people along.