“He gave me my last chance at Tioga Fort. And I cursed it in my heart and put it aside.”

“One day you will return,”

“Never again, Loskiel� . I am no coward. I dare face the wrath to come. It is not that; but — I am sorry I did not spare when I might have been more generous� . The little thing was ignorant� . Doves mate like that� . And somewhere — somehow — I shall be required to answer for it all — shall be condemned to make amends� . I wonder how the dead make their amends?� For me to burn in hell avails her nothing� . If she thought it she would weep uncomforted� . No; there is a justice. But how it operates I shall never understand until it summons me to hear my sentence.”

“You will return and do what a contrite heart bids you to do,”