he will know me; he will know me and console me.”

“He, also, is dead.”

“God be merciful to me, a stricken man! Gone, — both gone — the worthy taken and the worthless spared, in me!

Ah! I crave your mercy! — do not say the Lady Edith — ”

“Is dead? No, she lives.”

“Then, God be praised, my joy is whole again! Speed thee, brother — let her come to me! An’ she say I am not myself — but she will not; no, no, she will know me, I were a fool to doubt it. Bring her — bring the old servants; they, too, will know me.”

“All are gone but five — Peter, Halsey, David, Bernard, and Margaret.”