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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE.
"A NEW DOLL !" HE EXCLAIMED.
Swiftly he exposed the child's white shoulder.
"My baby had a scar there/' he said. "My baby is dead."
With a gesture of hopeless misery he turned away and dropped into a chair, shaken with sobs.
Virginia threw herself upon her knees at his feet.
"Tell him the truth/' the physician ordered.
"You are right, dearest, our baby is dead/' the woman wept. "Forgive me, my husband ! Can you blame me for
trying to win you back from worse than death? Do you not suppose that this deception tore out my own heart ? But I love you so, mv husband, and I was all alone ! All alone !"
He caught the shaken form to his breast.
"We have each other still, sweetheart," he whispered, "and we shall be happy again."
The child was weeping softly in sympathy for a sorrow which she saw but did not understand. Virginia turned quickly and pressed her to her heart. She looked at her husband with soft, shining eyes.
"That we have each other again is due to this baby, John," she said. "She has no mother, no father, and we — we have no child."
-A tender smile came to the man's face, and he held out his arms.
"From now on," he said gently, "she has a mother, and a father, and we — we have a little girl."
Dr. French slipped softly from the room and out of the house. Perhaps it was the sudden glare of sunlight that blinded him, for he ran fulltilt into a perfectly obvious policeman, at whom he stared reflectively.
"Science," he declared gravely, "has its limitations. Love has none."
SCENE FROM "ST. PAUL AND THE CENTURION.