That Girl of Johnson's — page 204: what you’re looking at

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THAT GIRL OF JOHNSON’S, 193 “Yes,” he said, gently, ‘‘I know he is dead, Dolores, but after death all things are made straight. He knows now better than he ever could have known from your telling, and I know he has forgiven us.” She did not comprehend. There was no softening of the tense lines of the stony face, no lessening of the agony in the wide dark eyes, no softening of the set, stern mouth. “ How can he know when he is dead ?” she said. There were sweetness and solemnity in the young man’s voice as he bent above the beautiful cold face that caused Dora to catch her breath in sudden comprehending of the depth of the kindly heart, as he slowly repeated, the touch on the girl’s hands very tender, the light in the loving eyes entering into her very soul: ‘* “There is no death. What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death.’ And God is there,” he added, ‘‘and the Christ who lived and suffered everything and more than anything hu- manity ever could suffer, and died that death to us might be but a new life. He understands our hearts, Lorie— Lorie dear. He understands our wish that your father should know we are sorry for our unjust suspicion of him, for, just for a time, Lorie—just fora time when I heard him say things that I could not understand, when I heard others hint at things that might mean much—just for a time, Lorie, I, too, believed he was guilty. I beg your pardon, too. I have more need than any one for forgive- ness,” And Mrs. Allen, who had also heard and seen what was going on in the room, Mrs. Allen, coming through the hall, heard and saw and knew instinctively that her planning had been in vain, that her desire for making the girl suffer, to a certain extent had gone even beyond her thought, but , that her power to hurt or wound her in any way in the future was gone forever—gone completely—and : she must KS co m