Sealed Lips — page 304: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

296 | SEALED LIPS. get that you should pray every day for two people that are dead, and soon for three.” A short time after their marriage the new couple, installed at Pomeyras, received their mail. The Countess O’Farrell commenced to read a letter post- marked Roumania, it was a very short acknowledg- ment of the first payment of a life income freely given her in the marriage contract. She was interrupted by an exelamation from Patrice, who handed her a letter still sealed, ad- dressed in the young man’s handwriting to Pere Chrysostome at Telagh, on which was written, “ Re- turned, uncalled for.” The holy man had ended his peregrinations. Under the missionary’s name was written, in a strange hand, one single word: “Dead |” [THE END. |