The following year Mrs. Josephine Hammond, accompanied by her husband, paid a visit to the grave to give instructions for the placing of a more substantial and appropriate monument there to the memory of Captain Alexander Carlstone, V.C. They found that the wind and the sun had riven the great totem-pole, and the frost had heaved its base so that it fell to one side.
But the little white birch cross of Christ’s poor remained firm in its place, where, in the evening shadow, it gleamed steadfastly like the good that endures when might and genius have passed away.
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