Walter followed the dog, and Jeff was left alone with Inez, who whispered drowsily, “Tell more of the bufiful valley far away.”
Then she fell asleep, and bending over her Jeff whispered, “Oh, God, in this world my sin will always follow and torture me, but grant that in the next I may be pure and innocent as this child.”
Something roused the little girl and opening her eyes, so like the eyes Jeff remembered so well, she lisped, “Ess, he will.”
Then she fell asleep again, and with a feeling that he had received a benediction, Jeff, who had never kissed her before, kissed her now for the sake of the dead Inez, whose grave was in the beautiful valley far away.
THE END.
BY
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES.
Tempest and Sunshine.