I must wait till Harold comes home; he will tell me what to do, and be so glad for me.

Dear Harold; his days of labor are over, and grandmother's, too.

Those diamonds are a fortune in themselves, and they are _mine_! my own! she said so! Oh, mother, I have found you at last, but I can't make it real; my head is so strange.
What if I should be crazy ?' and she started suddenly.

'What if that dreadful taint should be in my blood, or what if I should die just as I have found my mother! Oh, Heaven, don't let me die; don't let me lose my reason, and I will try to do right; only show me what right is.' She was praying now upon her knees with her throbbing head upon the side of the bed, into which she finally crept with her clothes on, even to her boots, for Jerrie was herself no longer.

The fever with which for days she had been threatened, and which had been induced by over-study at Vassar, and the excitement which had followed her return home, could be kept at bay no longer, and when Mrs.Crawford, who had seen her enter the house, went up after a while to see why she did not come down to tea, she found her sleeping heavily, with spots of crimson upon her cheeks, while her hands, which moved incessantly, were burning with fever.