l I read
it, Miss Russell?"

Dora nodded, and he read aloud:

"I have just heard that my husband, whom, as you know, I have not seen
since that terrible day at the Abbey, has died in a fit of delirium
tremens. The lawyers tell me that everything will be mine. If so,
Garthorne Abbey shall go back to the Church if Vane will take it, and if
you will let me come and help you in your work."

"Thank God!" said Sir Arthur, as he gave the letter back, "not for his
death, for that was, after all that we have heard, inevitable; but for
what Enid has done. Vane, she is your latest and, perhaps, after all,
your worthiest convert. And now, what's this?"

He tore open his own envelope, which was addressed in the handwriting of
one of his solicitor's clerks. The letter was very brief and formal, but
before he had read it through his face turned grey under the bronze of
his skin. He passed it over to Vane, and left the room without a word.

Vane looked at the few formal lines, and, as he folded the letter up
with trembling fingers, he said almost in a whisper:

"The tragedy is over. My mother is dead."

THE END.

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