rms, the mother saw at one glance; and
farther on, at the end of the apartment, were two men bending over a
bed, and Cecile Rivals, pale as death, supporting a head on her breast.

"Jack, my child!"

M. Rivals turned. "Hush," he said, sternly.

Then came a sigh--a long, shivering sigh.

Charlotte crept nearer, with failing limbs and sinking heart. It was
Jack indeed, with arms stiffly falling at his side, and eyes fixed on
vacancy.

The doctor bent over him. "Jack, my friend; it is your mother, she is
here!"

And she, unhappy woman, stretched out her arms toward him. "Jack, it is
I! I am here!"

Not a movement.

The mother cried in a tone of horror, "Dead?"

"No," said old Rivals; "no,--_Delivered_."

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