rring
through the pine tops. He listened and, hearing nothing, lay down again
and slept.

The morning came,--came as brightly and cheerfully as if the world knew
no sorrow and the men and women in it had no griefs. The morning came;
but before it came, a wing darker than the shadow of the night had
passed over the world; for when the trapper and his companion visited
the camp beyond the balsam thicket, they found the two lying side by
side,--the girl's head on the bosom of the man and her right hand lying
gently in his; no mark of violence on their bodies; no instrument of
death near,--lying as if they had fallen asleep, the man's countenance
in grave repose, the girl's blessedly peaceful; no name on either; no
scrap of paper that might tell who they might be. Perhaps the man's
faith was true. Perhaps the will has power to will itself and all of
life there is in us, out of the body. Be this as it may, the trapper and
his companion only saw this: the unknown man in the prime of his
strength lying dead under the pines and the girl in her loveliness lying
dead by his side.

[Illustration: Tail piece]

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