you, and we might be so happy?" Oh, why! why!

You asked Will to go to walk. He started, and I ran and forced him

back. To punish him, I shut him up in the room, forgetting that you

had placed your gun behind the door. In my insane terror I charged

you with murdering him, Harold. Before he died he confessed that he

had loaded it,—put in the very bullet that was to end his life.

Harold, can you forgive me when I say that I knew this when I saw you

at his funeral, and did not tell you? Yes, when I saw you so changed

that I scarcely recognized you, I kept his dying messages, which