man, starting to his feet.

"That's right," croaked the raven. "You're the right sort--_you_ are!"

"A capital idea that!" quoth the young man, cheerfully.

He looked up, but the raven had hopped away among the branches.

"Well, at any rate, his hint was well meant, and I'll follow it!" quoth
the young man, striding out boldly towards the houses which he could
just see glimmering beyond the edge of the wood.

* * * * *

"Ugh! How ugly and dirty it has become!" quoth the maiden, gazing in the
crystal at the soul which she had coveted and stolen. "I will throw it
away, it no longer amuses me!"

And she threw it from her into the mire of the city: and the wheels and
the feet rapidly buried it in the mud.

* * * * *

The grey-haired Bishop looked "so beautiful" in his coffin, that the
deaconesses and the dear good sisters longed to kiss him.

"None of 'em ever found out that you wanted a soul," croaked the raven,
who sat perched on the window-sill, blinking in the sunshine.

But there was no response to this: for how can a dead man talk?

THE END.

_Henderson & Spalding, Ltd., Marylebone Lane, London, W._

* * * * *

Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 46, "her" changed to "Her" to fit context (secured for Her)

Both hillside and hill-side were used in this book and were retained.

In the original text, each story began with the title on a page alone,
then a blank page, then the title was repeated at the start of the story
itself. These repeated titles were removed to avoid redundancy.

Text uses both Beloved and Beloved once.

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