58 RENEE.

foes had been cruel and friends
false, when no rest had come
to Renee, and when even that
sister-love that had been hers
in the castle where she spent
her early days had been lost
in the grave, Renee, grown old
and weary of earth, entered a
rest that no man could dis-
turb, even the rest that re-
mains for the children of God.
 The longest and most trou-
bled life seems short when it