The shadows were cold, and smote upon their hearts; they could
feel the wind from the strange waters on their brows; but only
she who was about to cross heard the low lapping of the waves.

Just as her feet touched the water there was a figure in the doorway.

"Judy!" said a wild voice; and Pip brushed them aside and fell
down beside her.

"Judy, Judy, JUDY!

The light flickered back in her eyes. She kissed him with pale lips
once, twice; she gave him both her hands, and her last smile.

Then the wind blew over them all, and, with a little shudder, she
slipped away.



Chapter XXII And Last


"She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years."

"No motion has she now--no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks and stones and trees."