These were her last words. She embraced the baby and sat calmly down upon the grave amid the raging elements. The storm's fury lasted an hour or more. The next morning Tesney and the baby were lying dead on George's grave.
Agnes had Tesney and the baby buried in the same grave with George. After ten years of terrible mental and bodily suffering Agnes died. A certain part of each day during this time she spent looking at Tesney's ring and praying aloud. Some said that her intense agony and earnest prayer thoroughly purged her soul of guilt. Others said not so. God knows.
REGNAN'S ANNIVERSARY
"I'll be up afore day to-morrow morning, Regnan."
"I'll sleep an hour longer, Kitty."
"That may bring bad luck, Regnan. Remember Nordad, the tinker."
"He mended a pot and married a woman the same hour."
"That was well enough. He always had a bit of bacon for the pot and a faithful wife."