I have had but one aim in life since we parted, and that was to see your higher self triumph over the material one.

If that hour has come or is coming, my life needs no other consolation.

In having that, I possess all." The man who listened--the men who listened--stood for a moment in awe of the nobility with which she thus expressed herself.

Then the only person present whom she seemed to see burst forth with a low cry, saying: "You shall not be disappointed.

I----" But there she hushed him.