, and then struck where they
were strongest. The stream flows now which will soon cease to flow, and
but one thing can stop it."

"Oh, what is that, Guy?--let me--"

"Death--which is at hand! Now, Ellen, do you forgive me? I ask no
forgiveness from others."

"From my heart I do, believe me."

"It is well. I am weak. Let me place my head upon your bosom. It is some
time, Ellen, since it has been there. How wildly does it struggle! Pray,
Ellen, that it beat not long. It has a sad office! Now--lips--give me
your lips, Ellen. You have forgiven me--all--everything?"

"All, all!"

"It grows dark--but I care not. Yet, throw open the window--I will not
rest--I will pursue! He shall not escape me!--Edith--Edith!" He was
silent, and sunk away from her embrace upon the floor. In the last
moment his mind had wandered to the scene in which, but an hour before,
he had witnessed the departure of Edith with his rival, Colleton.

The jailer, alarmed by the first fearful cry of Ellen succeeding this
event, rushed with his assistants into the cell, but too late. The
spirit had departed; and they found but the now silent mourner, with
folded arms, and a countenance that had in it volumes of unutterable wo,
bending over the inanimate form of one whose life and misnamed love had
been the bane of hers.

THE END.

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