And a woman standing inside had written the answering lines:
Were woman seen thro’, as the crystal pane,
Then some might ask, nor long time ask in ——
The rhyme word was indicated by a dash, but neither the tracings of those dead hands, nor the ancient lawns, nor the oaks that had been witness, did these two see. When many things had been said, she opened the locket.
“You must look now.”
“I will,” he said. As he looked, his eyes grew misty. “Both of us?” he whispered.
“Both of you!” she answered. And it was so, for in the corner of the picture was Penwiper.
THE CASE OF THE EVANSTONS