glory was too bright to last. The sun sank swiftly, the
celestial fires paled, the purples grew faint and died, and, where
they had been, night trailed her sombre plumes across the sea and sky.

But still the quiet glow of evening lingered, and presently a line of
light was shot athwart it, cutting a track of glory across the
shadowed sea, so weird and sudden, that it might well have been the
first ray of a resurrection morn breaking in upon the twilight of the
dead.

He gazed almost in awe, till the majestic sight stilled the tumult of
his heart, and his thoughts went up in thanks to the Creator for the
pure love he had found again, and which had not betrayed him. Then he
looked up, and there, stately and radiant, standing out clear against
the shadows, her face illumined by that soft, yet vivid light, her
trembling arms outstretched to clasp him--was his lost Angela.

He saw her questioning glances fall upon him, and the red blood waver
on her cheek; he saw the love-lights gather in her eyes; and then he
saw no more, for she was in his arms, murmuring sweet broken words.

Happy are those who thus shall find their Angela, whether it be here
or--on the further shore of yonder solemn sea!

And Mildred? She lay there before the stone symbol of inexorable
judgment, and sobbed till the darkness covered her, and her heart
broke in the silence.

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