The lesson had been hard. The reward was great. For now she knew that, come what might, the boy who could suffer as he had done when for a few hours her life had been despaired of, was great enough in heart and mind to be transformed for ever after. And she was not mistaken; for thenceforth her task was light, her happiness unclouded. THE END Transcriber’s note: Some irregularly hyphenated words have been regularized. A small number of typographical errors in the original have been silently corrected.