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ALICE LAUDER.

with the feeling of one who lays his gift on the altar and goes silently away into the city that she at last waved farewell to the shadows, as they turned their horses towards the hospitable lights of the little village. Of these two lovers, one would never fully know what the other had sacrificed; but perhaps their cup of love and happiness was not less blessed because it was mingled with the ever-rising, ever-flowing immemorial fountain of human tears.

THE END.

CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

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