rse by the
sickbed of the dying girl. She had been told by her sister-in-law
that she had murdered her niece. Who can say what were the
accusations brought against her by the fury of her own conscience?

Every day the fair-haired cousins came to Linda's bedside, and
whispered to her with their soft voices, and looked at her with their
soft eyes, and touched her with their soft hands. Linda would kiss
their plump arms and lean her head against them, and would find a
very paradise of happiness in this late revelation of human love. As
she lay a-dying she must have known that the world had been very hard
to her, and that her aunt's teaching had indeed crushed her,--body as
well as spirit. But she made no complaint; and at last, when the full
summer had come, she died at Cologne in Madame Staubach's arms.

During those four months at Cologne the zeal of Madame Staubach's
religion had been quenched, and she had been unable to use her
fanaticism, even towards herself. But when she was alone in the
world the fury of her creed returned. "With faith you shall move a
mountain," she would say, "but without faith you cannot live." She
could never trust her own faith, for the mountain would not be moved.

A small tombstone in the Protestant burying-ground at Cologne tells
that Linda Tressel, of Nuremberg, died in that city on the 20th of
July 1863, and that she was buried in that spot.

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