Chapter 34 The Return Home

Dixwell. Forgiveness! Oh, forgiveness, and a grave!

Mary. God knows thy heart, my father! and I shudder

To think what thou perchance hast acted.

Dixwell. Oh!

Mary. No common load of woe is thine, my father. ELLIOT'S Kerhonah.

Mary still hovered between life and death when Jem arrived at the house where she lay; and the doctors were a