her side. A spray of holly with
scarlet berries was at her throat and one of the children had
mischievously stuck a sprig of mistletoe in her hair. Her face was
turned aside, her eyes were downcast, the long, dark lashes drooping
against her cheek, and on her face rested a divine compassion; and as
Livingstone gazed on her he saw the same gracious figure and fine
profile that he had seen the night before outlined against the light in
the archway of the gate of the Children's Hospital. It was the
reflective face of one who has felt; but when she raised her eyes they
were the eyes of Catherine Trelane. And suddenly, as Livingstone looked
into them, they had softened, and she seemed to be standing, as she had
stood so long ago, in the Christmas evening light in a long avenue under
swaying boughs, in the heart of the land of his youth.

While still, somewhere above, the child's voice carolled,

--_Let nossing you dismay;
For Jesus Christ our Sa-wiour
Was born this ve-wy day_.

FINIS

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