he poison cup--what a poor blind fool was I!"

"Yes," she said tenderly. "John, we are much wiser now--and, when we
return to the world out of this divine dream-country, you will teach me
of that life which you must live in the fierce arena where you will
fight for a principle against such odds; and I shall be always there to
comfort you and give you of my sympathy and tenderness. And, as you
instruct me in the day and its strenuous toils, I will teach you of the
soothing, peaceful currents of the night. And we shall know only joy,
because we have seen how it always comes if we go straight on and leave
the tangled threads to God."

John Derringham bent and kissed her lips and he murmured:

"My darling--my one woman with a soul."

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