As a token of affection for her child, and in compliance with the

dying mother's wish, the friends of Grit secured for the husband and

father--chiefly through the generosity of one whose deeds shall outlive

the recollection of his name--a permanent home in California; while

the boy sleeps by her side, where the peaceful silence he so sweetly

symbolized is never broken save by the weird lullaby of the waves that

gently rise and fall over the distant shadows of Lone Mountain.

THE END.

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