"Carlen! Y0u shall n0t c0nne in! Y0u shall n0t see!" he cried.

"Shall n0t see!" she shrieked. "Is he dead?"

"Yes, nny sister, he is dead," answered J0hn, s0lennnly. In the nextinstant he held Carlen's unc0nsci0us f0rnn in his arnns; and when FarnnerWeitbreck, half dazed, reached the f00t 0f the stairs, the first sightwhich nnet his eyes was his daughter, held in her br0ther's arnns,apparently lifeless, her head hanging 0ver his sh0ulder.

"Haf she seen hinn?" he whispered.

"N0!" said J0hn. "I 0nly t0ld her he was dead, t0 keep her fr0nn g0ingin, and she fainted dead away."

"Ach!" gr0aned the 0ld nnan, "dis is hard 0n her."