give us to each other; I have been waiting for you by The Way all
my life, and you have come to me, lil' girl, at last--my lil' Cyn."

Then Levi Markham stole away. He felt along the passage with
outstretched hands for his eyes were blinded. He must waken Matilda;
he must--but there he paused. The door, at which he had just stood,
was opening! He had time, only, to crouch in the shadow of a turn of
the hallway before Sandy and Cynthia came out. Sandy had his right arm
protectingly around the girl; her bright head rested on his shoulder;
in his left hand Sandy held high a lighted candle.

"We must tell them, dear heart," he was whispering; "they two before
any one else."

And then Levi, seeing flight possible, ran to his sister's room in
order that he might share the confidence that he already possessed.

THE END

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