ick it for me, will you?"

I started to say no, but then I saw but one bud on it and I thought to
myself, "I'll see her pleased for once, I will!" knowing she'd never
notice, and so brought it. She waved it, blue above her white head
(and me only iron grey to-day!)

"_Larkspur, larkspur, tell me true,_
_Or never again I'll trust to you,_"

she mumbled like, and I thought her voice sounded strange and far away,
somehow.

"_Is a change coming at last in my narrow little life?_"

"Oh, hush, Miss Lisbet! you that have been so much to so many!" says I,
sobbing at her dear stupidness, and then she begins, yes--and that was
all.

"Why, Rhoda!" she cries, "at last, at last I've won!" and half rises in
the garden-chair. Then suddenly her hands went to her heart.

"Why, Louis--Louis! My dear!" she said, staring at the cedar hedge.
"_Can you see?_" And fell back.

The change had come, indeed, and I and all that loved her hope that now
she knows what a life like hers meant to those she lived among and
blessed!

THE END

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