The slight falter, the womanly softness of her voice, had robbed me of all resentment, and I was conscious merely of admiration for her courage and loyalty.

" The involuntary falter in the words spoke more eloquently than the words themselves, but she went on after a moment with that same forced briskness to which she was trying to compel her dragging limbs.

"I could find it good," she said with a soft little falter in her voice, "even at twenty-two.

For thee, poor youth,go not unto the grave With a red lie upon thy trembling tongue Not for myself, but for thy soul I crave, Death's champions should have sinews tightly strung, And thou wilt falter where I shall be brave.