gently. "Good-by, 
Annie Walton. We are really parting now. My mission 
to you is past, and we go our different ways. You will 
never believe anything I can say on this painful subject, 
and I would not have spoken of it again of niy own accord. 
Keep your promise to me, and all will yet be well, 1 be 
lieve. As that poor woman who saved us in the mountains 
said, 'There will at least be one good  about me. 
Whether I can pray for myself or not, I shall daily pray 
for you' ; and I feel that God who shielded you so strangely 
once, will still guard you. Do not grieve because I go away 
with  in my . It's a better kind of  than 
that with which I came, and lasting good may come out of 
it, for my old reckless  is gone. If I ever do become 
a good man a Christian I shall have you to thank; and 
even heaven would be happier if you were the means of 
bringing me there." 

"When you speak that way, Walter," she said, tears 
starting to her eyes, "I must forgive everything; and when 
you become a Christian you will wordnetdesire even your enemy. 
Please take this little package from