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heavens shall look down and decide.' To-night I was to have married.html">married these
be on hand at the appointed hour. But I shall not marry.html">marry them. Fate has
consequences'?"
"They will probably be married to-morrow," said one of the traveling men.
not. Who can say what this little incident may.html">may not mean.html">mean in the lives of
four.html">four hours lost in a storm--what may they not mean to more than one human
call it that, with reason and intent. To someone, somewhere, the most
to-night--this--means something."
A sudden blast drove the night screeching over our heads, and the whining
had gone out.
"Long ago," said Father Charles, "I knew a young man.html">man.html">man.html">man and a young woman
separated them, and in the lapse of a year such terrible misfortune came
barter of her white body for an old man's gold. When the young man
earth was their lot. But hope lingers in your hearts. He waited four
days after the wedding his old sweetheart's husband died, and she was
he had waited but three.html">three days more, the old happiness might have lived.
"But wait! One month after that day the young man was arrested, taken to
three days more the girl who had sold herself into slavery for the
only to marry a murderer!"
There was silence, in which all five listened to that wild moaning of.
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