"I could not give you my life, so I have brought you my death!" Those
were her words. What could she mean--what could it all mean? I must know
or I would go mad. There it lay, whatever it was, wrapped up in linen.

Ah, heaven help me! It was a small bleached human skull!



A dream! After all, only a dream by the fire, but what a dream! And I am
to be married to-morrow.

_Can_ I be married to-morrow?





BARBARA WHO CAME BACK



CHAPTER I

THE RECTORY BLIND

This is the tale of Barbara, Barbara who came back to save a soul alive.