I s'posed, of course, he'd gone to bed all right, but when I was going out to the barn I stumbled across something in the snow, and I felt around, and there he was.

He got hold of my revolver someway.

It was on the shelf by the washstand, and I s'pose he went out there so't we wouldn't hear him." "I dassn't touch him," he said, with a shiver; "and the old woman, she jest slumped down in a chair an set there--wouldn't do a thing--so I come over to see you." Milton's heart swelled with remorse.

He felt guilty because he had not gone directly for the doctor.

To think that the old sufferer had killed himself was horrible and seemed impossible.
The wind was blowing the snow, cold and dry, across the yard, but the sun shone brilliantly upon the figure in the snow as they came up to it.
There Daddy lay.