"Not killed--not even injured, Philip?" exclaimed Fane.
"No, thank Heaven! but a poor fellow was to whom I lent my Ulster when hurrying homeward. Do you forgive me, darling Laura--forgive my cruel desertion?"
"Oh, yes, my love--my own Philip--all--all! And is the little fellow not a darling too--and so like you, Philip?" said the broken, half-hushed voice.
And as Philip, with a bursting heart, hung over his wife and child, he could hear more merrily than ever the joyous bells that told of the promise given 1800 years ago to the Chaldean shepherds as they watched their flocks by night in Judæa.
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