"He did believe, Nellie. But for that my heart would have broken."
"Did he know you were coming?" asked Nellie presently.
"Yes; he got the telegram the day he died.
"'Tell her,' he said, 'that it is only for a little while, and then we shall be for ever with the Lord.' Those were his last words."
[CHAPTER XVII.]
PLANS.
IT was difficult to turn from the remembrance of Christina's great sorrow, besides which Nellie had her own private distress and anxiety to bear up against and hide as well as she might. At last she managed to rally herself sufficiently to ask Christina further of her project, and how she thought of beginning it.
"Yes, and you must advise me," said Christina.