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As Charley walked the bank of the great river by the city where his old life lay dead, he struggled with the new life which -- long or short -- must henceforth belong to the village of the woman he loved. But as he fought with himself in the long night-watch it was borne in upon him that though he had been shown the Promised Land, he might never find there a habitation and a home. The hymn he had mockingly sung the night he had been done to death at the Cote Dorion sang in his senses now, an ever-present mockery:
"On the other side of Jordan, / In the sweet fields of Eden, / Where the tree of life is blooming, / There is rest for you. / There is rest for the weary, / There is rest for the weary, / There is rest for the weary, / There is rest for you. "