In the daytime, driven abroad by loathing of her companion

thought of this, the day broke--Sunday.

It was not until the night of this last awful day, that a

withering sense of his helpless, desperate state came in its full

intensity upon his blighted soul; not that he had ever held any

defined or positive hope of mercy, but that he had never been

able to consider more than the dim probability of dying so soon.

He had spoken little to either of the two men, who relieved each

other in their attendance upon him; and they, for their parts,