'Oh, all the pain has gone and somebody called me then; was it the colonel, Meg?'
'But I could see the great change coming, and I said I didn't think it was the colonel.
'There, he's called again, kiss me, darling, quickly; are you ready, Sam?' he asked.
And then there broke a perfect glory on his face and in his eyes a look of deep adoring love as, turning rapturously to me, he said,—
'Why, Meg, I heard the Lord!'
And so I quickly kneeled, because only his dear, dying ears had heard the quiet entry of that radiant Presence in the room, as, with a little rapturous intaking of his breath, he raised himself and said,—
'Yes, coming, Sir,' and saw his 'Picture,' The Beatific Vision.
And so the sister found us when she came; and as I folded the dear, strong hands that never did an unkind act, across the quiet heart that did 'adore Him so,' and closed the eyes which never looked at me except in love, she said, gazing with misty eyes upon his peace-filled face,—
'We see many types; he was a very gallant Christian gentleman.'
She took me to that little room I had first waited in.