"Oh, Miss Lake died a few days after she left here," she said in a very low voice. "But don't think about her any more, dearie! She'll never frighten children again with her silly stories."
"DIED!"
Jimbo sat up in bed and stared into the shadows behind her, as though his eyes saw something she could not see. But his voice seemed almost to belong to some one else.
"She was really dead all the time, then," he said below his breath.
Then the child fell back without another word, and dropped off into the sleep which was the first step to final recovery.
THE END
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Transcriber's Note:
The following corrections were made:
- [p. 52]: removed paragraph break after comma (whispered, "My darling boy,)
- [p. 87]: acccomplish to accomplish (she would accomplish)
- [p. 96]: removed paragraph break after comma (and said very gravely, with her serious eyes fixed on his face, "Miss Lake,)
- [p. 123]: achoed to echoed ("Long!" he echoed,)
- [p. 181]: existance to existence (an existence far antedating)
- [p. 197]: conciousness to consciousness (the consciousness cannot)
- [p. 204]: so to no (no sequence in the order)