10 DIGGING A GRAVE

mistress and took the Scripture in his hands, ,
and pledged himself to neither touch or
taste spirits as long as he lived; and then
ordered horses, and away down to what
was to be their home evermore in this world.
My poor young lady could not go on account —
of her situation. When he was leaving us
that night, he turned round on the steps
and, laying his hand on my shoulder, ‘ Peggy,’
he says, ‘ you have been. faithful to her all.
your life, and I leave her in your care; the
doctor and nurse are at hand; but if she’s
taken il, you send for me at once. She
is my very life, Peggy — you know that,’
and out he went into the night. And as
he got into the carriage, the light fom her.
window, where she was watching him, stream-
ed down on the carriage, and he stretched
half out of it, kissing his hand and waving |
his hat long after she could get sight of

him, though the carriage lamps cast a wild,
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