"
"Yes, yes; it is better so. Dear Charley--happy, happy Charley!"
And a smile once more came over the sick man's face, which did not pass
away, for Death had frozen it there.
L'ENVOI.
Years have passed since Richard Yorke was laid in the church-yard on the
hill at Gethin, close beside his mother, whose bones Harry's pious care
had caused to be transported thither.
If aught of things that here befall
Touch a spirit among things divine--
If love has force to move us there at all,
her ghost was glad. "In time," thought Harry, "I too shall lie by his
side, at last, once more."
Old Trevethick's prophecy was accomplished in the almost fabulous
success that attended the working of Wheal Danes. If its shares are not
quoted in the market, that is because the family have retained it in
their own hands, in spite of the most dazzling offers.
Mr. Dodge has a codicil to his story at _The George and Vulture_ now,
and expresses his infinite satisfaction at the fact that "that 'ere Coe"
came to grief in the end, as he had so richly deserved to do. "I don't
doubt," says he, "that while he was underground with the bats and rats
he thought of that poor lad as he had treated so spiteful. Things mostly
does work round all right" (he would add) "under Providence, whose motto
(if I may say so without disrespect) is summat like mine: 'Let us have
no misunderstandings and no obligation.
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