of her face. She crossed to her dresser, where a long
frame of many divisions held the photographs of all whom she had
loved. The first in order was of a woman who had a face like
Eleanor's; a more beautiful Eleanor, perhaps, but with no such grave
light of the spirit in her eyes. This she touched with her finger
tips. But her look was bent upon the second, the portrait of a young
man whose attitude, defying the conventional pose of old-fashioned
photography, showed how blithe and merry and full of life he must have
been.
"Ah, Billy Gray!" she whispered, "Billy Gray, you know, _you_, how
sincerely Eleanor and I ought to thank God!"
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