CHAPTER I "You told a LIE?" "You confess it--you actually confess it--you told a lie!" CHAPTER II The family consisted of four persons: Margaret Lester, widow, aged thirty six; Helen Lester, her daughter, aged sixteen; Mrs. Lester's maiden aunts, Hannah and Hester Gray, twins, aged sixty-seven. Waking and sleeping, the three women spent their days and night in adoring the young girl; in watching the movements of her sweet spirit in the mirror of her …showed first 75 words of 6790 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6790 total…poor creatures who have learned our human weakness, and we know that if we were in those hard straits again our hearts would fail again, and we should sin as before. The strong could prevail, and so be saved, but we are lost." They lifted their heads in supplication. The angel was gone. While they marveled and wept he came again; and bending low, he whispered the decree. CHAPTER X Was it Heaven? Or Hell?