The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

86 The Gates Ajar. "I do not feel sure that anything he has left makes no'difference' to him." " But I don't understand. He is in heaven. fle would be too happy to care for anything that is going on in this woful world." "Perhaps that is so," she said, smiling a sweet contradiction to her words, " but I don't believe it." "What do you believe?" " Many things that I have to say to you, but you cannot bear them now." " I have sometimes wondered, for I cannot help it," I said, "whether he is shut off from all knowledge of me for all these years till I can go to him. It will be a great while. It seems hard. Roy would want to know something, if it were only a little, about me." " I believe that he wants to know, and that he knows, Mary; though, since the belief must rest on analogy and conjecture, you need not accept it as demonstrated mathematics," she answered, with another smile. "Roy never forgot me here!" I said, not meaning to sob. " That is just it. He was not constituted so that he, remaining himself, Roy, could forget you. If he goes out into this other life

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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