I stepped forward. Meeting my eye, she faltered this last word:

"Your advice was good. To-morrow when I meet my husband I will tell him

who found the child and why that child is not at my side to greet him."

* * * * *

That night I had a vision. I saw a door--shut, ominous. Before that door

stood a woman, tall, pale, beautiful. She was there to enter, but to

what no mortal living could say. She saw nothing but loss and the

hollowness of a living death behind that closed door.

But who knows? Angels spring up unknown on the darkest road, and

perhaps--

Here the vision broke; the day and its possibilities lay before me.

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