"_Our Father which art in Heaven_." "Meg, Meg," she murmured, "Meg--God bless my little child!" And those were the last words of Kitty Marchurst, for when the prayer was ended she was lying back, with her pure, childlike face stilled in death. So she went into the outer darkness laden with sins, but surely God in His mercy pardoned this woman, whose impurity was more the result of circumstances than anything else. Let us not deny to others the mercy which we ourselves will need some day. Kitty was dead, with all her frailties and passions; and as the clergyman arose from his knees, he repeated reverently the words of his Master,-- "_He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her_." FINIS. ---------------------------------------- COLSTON AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Miss Mephistopheles, by Fergus Hume