The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

4 Tze Gates Ajar. counting the days that I did not hear the front gate, and when I looked down a man stood there, -- a great, rough man, - who shouted up that he was in a hurry, and wanted seventyfive cents for a telegram that he had brought over from East Homer. I believe I went down and paid him, sent him away, came up here and locked the door before I read it. Phcebe found me here at dinner-time. If I could have gone to him, could have busied myself with packing and journeying, could have been forced to think and plan, could have had the shadow of a hope of one more look, one word, I suppose I should have taken it differently. Those two words - " Shot dead"- shut me up and walled me in, as I think people must feel shut up and walled in, in Hell. I write the words most solemnly, for I know that there has been Hell in my heart. It is all over now. He came back, and they brought him up the steps, and I listened to their feet, - so many feet; he used to come bounding in. They let me see him for a minute, and there was a funeral, and Mrs. Bland came over, and she and Phoebe attended to everything, I suppose. I did not notice nor think till we had left him out there in the cold

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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