me! I gave the devilish fancies free rein to drag me on and hurl me down, fixing my torment upon this: that the man in whose arms she turned knew the charms of her body as I knew them... I was near to madness... And instead of raging and threatening, I walled myself up in an impregnable aloofness, an obstinate stubbornness, and a coldness beyond which there is no coldness... And I — the prey of my own jealousy — drove her out for the doctor to prey upon and carry off. Afterward I put off her divorce again and again, the better to torture her and to glut myself on the ruin of her happiness. The end of it was that her companion — one of my fellows at the university — left her, despairing of ever making her his wife. And she went away to comfort the feeble-minded."

A moment's silence settled on us all, in which there rose before me, far off, the "dreadful height" with its three crosses lashed by the winds! Then the silence was broken by a mellow, plaintive pealing of bells! And my fancy went back to the music of the angels and the nativity hymn of the Lord of love and redemption. The doctor said:

"Do you love her still?"

"That I do, in truth!"

"Could you forgive her?"

"One hour I say yes. And one hour no!"

"Have you remembered the word of the Son of Man: 'Let him among you who is without sin cast the first stone at her'?!"

The maid roused me from my daze, beckoning us out. We slipped from our hiding place onto the balcony that overlooks the back door, then gained the elevator, and the street. And in

the night and the cold, alone, she walked, with automatic steps, and entered one of the cars —

— bound for the asylum of the feeble-minded!

And on the happy morning of the feast, as I was going down

the stairs on my way to church, I heard a car stop and two figures spring from it. I knew them: Hiyam and her husband — going in to Fouad, their child, to wish him a merry Christmas and to live blessed years at his side.

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