“Hush, hush!” he said, and put his arms about her again, seeing where her thoughts were straying—to the fresh brown mound on the bleak hillside by the ruin of the old prison. “They are together, your father and mine. Because of that, we shall not forget our Holy Russia. Would not they both be happy—are they not both happy, knowing what they must know now, and seeing what the dead must see? We living think we would do one thing, but is it not that the dead guide us, knowing better than we what is before us and what we shall do before we have finished? Truly, as the wise say, from evil good—my love was here but I did not know it—and now I have found her.”
And as the fog shrouded them from the street, there was nothing to prevent him from kissing her once more.
THE END
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