Augusta rose to her knees and to her overstrained senses the tall white figure advancing upon her must have taken on some kind of a supernatural appearance. We do not know just what was in her mind, probably it is not important. But she raised her hand in a foolish little salute, and said, somewhat apologetically, to the doctor: "If you please, God, we've changed our mind. We'd much rather live." Then she slid quietly down in a faint beside Jimmie. To this day that surgeon thinks that he did not hear correctly. Printed in the United States of America TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: This book uses dialect. To retain the intended flavor of the book, spelling and punctuation in dialect text have not been altered. Hyphenation and spelling of non-dialect wording in the text were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; if no predominant preference was found, or if there is only one occurrence of the word, spelling and hyphenation were not changed. Punctuation has been standardized to modern usage for better readability. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Page 229, typo, "of" repeated, one "of" removed. (a living part of of him,) End of Project Gutenberg's The Hills of Desire, by Richard Aumerle Maher