Chapter 11 THEREAFTER.

If I do right, though heavens fall,

And end all light and laughter;

Though black the night and ages long,

Bitter the cold-the tempest strong-

If I do right, and brave it all-

The sun shall rise thereafter!

The inaccessibility of Dr. Hale gave him, in the eye of Mrs. St. Cloud, all the attractiveness of an unscaled peak to the true