to see you strong and well again."




CHAPTER XXV.

"And therefore my heart is heavy
With a sense of unquiet pain,
For but Heaven can tell if the parted
Shall meet in the earth again.

"With Him be the time and the season
Of our meeting again with thee:
Whether here, on these earthly borders,
Or the shore of the world to be."

CAREY.


One day our party had traveled further than on any previous occasion:
long and tedious was the ride, still they pushed on, hoping to reach
some stream ere the tents were pitched for the night, as an abundant
supply of pure fresh water was essential to the comfort of their camp.
In the metaphorical strain of a certain writer--"Phoebus drove his
steeds to be foddered in their western stables." Slowly twilight fell
upon the earth, and, one by one, the lamps of heaven were lit. The
wagon in which Dr. Bryant and Mary rode was rather in the rear of the
party, as the riders pressed anxiously forward. The cool night-wind
blew fresh upon the fevered brow of the invalid, and gently lifted and