Between Snow and Fire — page 248: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

) ' ‘ ; ' « yo a ; ‘ ée ‘ yo i = + . fa : a - De Be | ; ve : ee >is .* | again, it has gone clean through the same word. Look at theend. ‘... J want you inall your dangers and hardships to have, with you, these poor little lines, coming, as they are, warm from my hand andelRT” . .’ And now for the photo- graph. It is a sweetly lifelike representation of you, my dearest——”’ A cry from her interrupted him. The portrait was a three parts length cabinet one, cut round to enable it to fit the box, which it did exactly. Right through the breast of the portrait, the assegai point had pierced. “O Eustace—this is an oracle, indeed!” she cried. “Do you not see? The spear point has gone right through my ‘heart’ again for the third time. My dearest love, thrice has my ‘heart’ stood between you and death—once in the portrait, twice in the letter, At the same time it has obliterated the word ‘curse.’ It is, indeed, an ‘ oracle’ and What if I had never given you that box at all?” “TI should be a lot of dry bones scattered about the veldt in Bomvanaland at this moment,” he rejoined. “Now you see how your love has twice stood between me and death ; has preserved my life for itself. My sweet guardian angel, does not that look as if some Fate had always in- tended us for each other from the very first] ” Gomilchdoo