Then I awoke from my dream.
Agnes paused, and the children remained silent, till Minnie broke forth with passionate earnestness—
"But oh, Agnes, there is a way out! Oh, why were they left there to perish?"
"That was all I saw in that dream," said Agnes; "and when I woke these words were ringing in my ears, 'The wages of sin is death.'"
"But," said John, with kindling eyes, "there is a bit more to the end of that verse, Agnes."
"Not if we keep only to the first page of the 'Wordless Book,'" answered Agnes.
"But we need not keep to the first page, need we?" said Minnie, looking rather sorrowful.
"Oh, no, thank God! For Hugh shall finish that twenty-third verse of the sixth of Romans which begins so sadly."
So Hugh repeated: "'The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.'"