There was a long pause, then--

"You'll--carry on--the work, John; not in your own strength, John--in

His?"

Adams promised earnestly in a choking voice, and the sick man seemed to

sink to rest with a smile on his lips. He never spoke again. Next day

he was buried under the palm-trees, far from the home of his childhood,

from the land which had condemned him as a heartless mutineer.

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