ith God's help, and _yours_,
Barbara!" he implored. "Will you drive me to despair? Will you forsake
me, or will you help me?"

A shiver shook the woman's slight form, and she passed her hand across
her eyes once or twice, before reaching it toward him. A piteous smile
quivered across her lips, but her eyes did not seek his.

He seized her hand, and again threw himself before her.

"I am your wife, Jamie," she said, gently. "Your wife, for better or
for worse. Whatever I can do to help you, I will do."

Then at last the eyes of the two met in a long, long gaze, and in that
moment Dixon read his fate.

Everything else might, and did, come back to him--the esteem and
confidence of his fellow-men, worldly success, aye, and the blessing
of God upon the work to which he dedicated the best portion of his
remaining years--the raising up of the fallen and unfortunate; all
these things came to him in time, but one thing he forever missed--the
old look of perfect, unquestioning trust in one woman's eyes, the eyes
of the woman for whose sake he had sinned.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters' errors; otherwise
every effort has been made to remain true to the authors' words and
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