e lower window.

    `Alone, Maggie? said tom, in a voice of deep astonis, as .

    `Yes, tom: God aken care of me, to bring me to you. Get in quickly. Is there no one else?

    `No, said tom, stepping into t, `I fear t of trees and stones against it: Ive sed again and again, and the oars, Maggie.

    It  till tom er - o face  t  came irely neion to , of t  o ask a question. t mutely gazing at eacense life looking out from a en face - tom pale ain a : and tion, ory of almost miraculous divinely-protected effort. But at last a mist gatter: the old childish - `Magsie!

    Maggie could make no ans a long deep sob of t mysterious h pain.

    As soon as so Lucy, tom: well go and see if s.

    tom roired vigour, and  speed from poor Maggies. t  of t tofton.

    `Park ands  of t Lucy there.

    Noto given s ed along. tery desolation  in dreadful clearness around ted onening masses. A large company in a boat t s ofton ed, `Get out of t!

    But t could not be done at once, and tom, looking before s, clinging togetal fellowsream.

    `It is coming, Maggie! tom said, in a deep he oars, and clasping her.

    t instant t er - and triumph.

    But soon t reappeared, a black speck on ter.

    t reappeared - but broter o be parted - living t, ttle ogether.

    Conclusion

    NAtURE repairs ion tle visible trace on ter. tumn ers among tant h hopeful lading and unlading.

    And every man and ioned in tory ill living - except those whose end w