Europe rang with the
story, no scandal--nor hint of it--besmirched the fair fame of the
unhappy Boy and girl who had loved "not wisely, but too well!"

There had, indeed, been for them, as they had playfully said--"No
to-morrow!"

And Sir Paul Verdayne, kneeling by the bier, with its trappings of a
kingdom's mourning, which hid beneath its rich adornment all the joy
that life for twenty years had held for him, felt for the first time a
sense of guilt, as he looked back upon his past.

He did not regret his love. He could never do that! Truly, a man and a
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the world, the fruit of such a union, to suffer and die, "for the sins
of the fathers," as his son had suffered and died--there was the sin--a
selfish, unpardonable sin! "And the wages of sin is death."

He had never felt the truth before. He had been so happy in his Boy, and
so proud of his future, that there had never been a question in his
mind. But now he was face to face with the terrible consequences.

"Oh, God!" he cried, "truly my punishment is just--but it is greater
than I can bear!"

* * * * *

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