Carlyon call her loudly.
Then a bell rang, and she and Dinah rushed into David's room. One
look at the changed, livid face told them the truth. Dinah sent off
for the doctor, and she and Elizabeth tried all possible remedies,
but in vain. Sudden collapse had set in. David could not speak; but
for one moment his dying eyes rested on Elizabeth's face, and his
last act of consciousness was to try to put her hand in his
father's.
"I understand, David," Elizabeth stooped and whispered into his dull
ear. "Yes, we will take care of each other, and comfort each other;"
and then a faint, flickering smile seemed to cross his face, but the
next moment unconsciousness set in. For hours Elizabeth knelt beside
him with her arm supporting the pillow under his head, while on the
other side the stricken father offered up supplications for his
dying son. When his voice quavered and broke with human weakness,
and Dinah begged him to spare himself, he shook his gray head.
"Maybe he hears me--I will go as far as I can with him down the
valley of the shadow of death," And then he folded his trembling
hands together.
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