And then, after dinner, in the evening, I will get into my special carriage in the express train and my servants will make me comfortable and then away, away, a night, and a day and another night and perhaps a few hours more and I shall be at home at last, in my own great, beautiful home, far out in the glorious country among the woods and the streams and the birds; and I shall be driven in an open carriage with four horses up from the village through the great avenue of poplars to the grand old house.

But before I go in I will go to the tomb--yes, I will go to the tomb among the trees, and I will say a prayer for my father and--" "Your father ?" Vjera started slightly.

She had listened to the long catalogue of the poor man's anticipations with a sad, unchanging face, as though she had heard it all before.

But at the mention of his father's death she seemed surprised.
"Yes.

He is dead at last, and my brother died on the same day.