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had dressed him and the undertaker had been here to lay him out. I was surprised at the look of peaceful dignity upon his face after these ten days of wretchedness. All his troubles ended at last. All my hardness and bitterness gone and in its place pity and sorrow. Sara told us with tears about their bringing him home Wednesday evening. How the wind moaned and after they had got him in his bed she listened on the stairs and heard him moan and sigh, and she did not go in thinking it was the same thing he had gone through so many times before. She reproached herself that she had not gone in and spoken to him. In the morning she went in and asked him if he did not want a drink of water and offering him a little in a glass he clutched it and with wild eyed eagerness swallowed it. Dr Smith had seen him the night before and told her he was in a very bad way. What he must have suffered all that night, and to think that he had so alienated us all that we could not even go to see him and try to help him in his agony. I confess it seemed dreadful to me. I doubt whether I would have gone near him had I been here. She was with him when he died about 9 o'clock this morning. He died peacefully at last, of congestion of the lungs brought on by excess and exposure, Dr Smith said. The Undertaker came after dinner and put him in the coffin in the sitting room. His poor head was bruised in two places and although he looked peaceful and at rest, decomposition had begun and it was seen that it was wise to have had the funeral today. I took my poor Mother in to see him. She cried as if her poor heart would break over her poor erring boy. I tried to make a pencil sketch of him as he lay in his coffin. The funeral took place at 5 oclock, the services by Mr. Magee. He was very sympathetic and spoke with much tenderness his idea being that God had called him from his trials and temptations to a better sphere. There were no people here besides our own family excepting the bearers, Mr. Wood, John Romeyn, Grace Webster, Archie Winter, Olivia Bingham and a Mr         from

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