CHAPTER XI.

‘HE events of one day were so appal- .
ling, that she needed no farther ev-

idence to prove the wide-spread pes-

 

tilence that prostr ated alike the rich and
poor. Though her fair, soft face was bathed
in fone. she registered a resolve that, unless _
i her lover gave up “the drop” out and out,
and proved he had done so by a whole year

‘of abstinence, she would’ ‘give him up — yes,
_ though the effort wrenched the life, out of

~ her heart. —

"What terrible experiences of the curse
that attends intemperance were gathered into
that one day’s experience: the poor little,

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