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84 her, she had gone from me, while I woke to find it was only a dream."

"Let us pray," said Captain Nelson solemnly, "for I have had a similar dream."

"So have we!" cried some of the other passengers, as they knelt beside the captain and bent their heads.

As for Philip Mortlake, he looked with grave yet thankful eyes upon Adela, and murmured in her ear,—

"You have come back to me, and now nothing can part us more."

"I thought upon my friend all through my dream, and wished to be near him," she answered softly, as they knelt together.

"And therefore the child called 'Pure Desire' brought you to me."

"Lord, Thou hast been our Refuge from one generation to another; comfort us again for the time wherein we have suffered adversity, that we, with all those, may have our perfect consummation and bliss in Thy eternal and everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

"Amen," answered the kneelers with one accord, as they joined in with the captain's deep and solemn tones.