"Soon you will be back. That will be sunrise after long darkness.
"Good-night. It's hard to leave you--so lonesome--wanting you so. Again,
good-night, dear girl for whom my arms are yearning. Bless you,
sweetheart--God bless you--and does God, Himself, know what you have been
to me?"
She read the last of it, as always, with sobs uncontrollable. Dr.
Parkman--everything--was forgotten. It was Karl alone in the library,
longing for her, needing her--and she not there.
"Oh, Karl--Karl!" she sobbed across the black chasm of the year--"if I
could only have had that hour!"
CHAPTER XLI
WHEN THE TIDE CAME IN
But the days which came then were different. Dr. Parkman had stirred her
to a discontent with despair.
She had come West with Georgia and Joe. For five days they had been at
this little town on the Oregon coast. Through the day and through the
night she listened to the call of the sea. It stirred her strangely. At
times it frightened her.
She did not know why she should have wished to come.
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