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Elenor Murray stole away from Nice	A
Before her furlough ended tense to see	B
Something of Italy and planned to go	C
To Genoa explore the ancient town	D
Of Christopher Columbus if she might	E
Elude the regulation as she did	F
In leaving Nice for Italy But for her	G
Always the dream and always the defeat	H
Of what she dreamed	I
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She found herself in Florence	J
And saw the city But the weariness	K
Of labor and her illness came again	L
At intervals and on such days she lay	M
And heard the hours toll wished for death and wept	N
Being alone and sorrowful	O
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On a morning	P
She rose and looked for galleries came at last	Q
Into the Via Gino Capponi	L
And saw a little church and entered in	L
And saw amid the darkness of the church	R
A woman kneeling knelt beside the woman	L
And put her hand upon the woman's forehead	S
To find that it was wrinkled strange to say	M
A scar upon the forehead like a cross	T
Elenor Murray rose and walked away	M
Sobs gathering in her throat her body weak	U
And reeled against the wall for so it seemed	I
Against which hung thick curtains velvet red	S
A little grimed and worn And as she leaned	V
Against the curtains clung to them she felt	W
A giving parted them and found a door	X
Pushed on the door which yielded opened it	Y
And saw a yard before her	G
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It was walled	Z
A garden of old urns and ancient growths	A2
Some flowering plants around the wall	B2
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Before her	G
And in the garden's center stood a statue	C2
With outstretched arms the Virgin without the child	D2
And suddenly on Elenor Murray came	E2
Great sorrow like a madness seeing there	F2
The pitying Virgin stretching arms to her	G
And so she ran along the pebbly walk	G2
Fell fainting at the Virgin's feet and lay	M
Unconscious in the garden	L
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When she woke	H2
Two nuns were standing by and one was dressed	I2
In purest white and held within her hands	J2
A tray of gold and on the tray of gold	K2
There was a glass of wine and in a cup	L2
Some broth of beef and on a plate of gold	K2
A wafer	G
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And the other nun was dressed	I2
In purest white but over her shoulders lay	M
A cape of blue blue as the sky of Florence	J
Above the garden wall	B2
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Then as she saw	M2
The nuns before her in the interval	O
Of gathering thought re limning life again	L
From wonder if she had not died and these	N2
Were guides or ministrants of another world	O2
The nun with cape of blue to Elenor	G
Said Drink this wine this broth and Elenor	G
Drank and arose being lifted up by them	P2
And taken through the convent door and given	L
A little room as white and clean as light	E
And a bed of snowy linen	L
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Then they said	S
This is the Convent where we send up prayers	Q2
Prayers for the souls who do not pray for self	R2
Rest child and be at peace and if there be	B
Friends you would tell that you are here then we	B
Will send the word for you sleep now and rest	I2
And listening to their voices Elenor slept	N
And when she woke a nurse was at her side	S2
And food was served her broths and fruit Each day	M
A doctor came to tell her all was well	T2
And health would soon return	L
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So for a month	U2
Elenor Murray lay and heard the bells	V2
And breathed the fragrance of the flowering city	B
That floated through her window in the stillness	K
Of the convent dreamed and said to self This place	W2
Is good to die in who is there to tell	T2
That I am here There was no one To them	P2
She gave her name but said Till I am well	T2
Let me remain and if I die some place	W2
Must be for me for burial put me there	G
And if I live to go again to France	X2
And join my unit let me have a writing	P
That I did not desert was stricken here	G
And could not leave For while I stole away	M
From Nice to get a glimpse of Italy	B
I might have done so in my furlough time	Y2
And not stayed over it And to Elenor	G
The nuns said We will help you but for now	L
Rest and put by anxieties	N2
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On a day	M
Elenor Murray made confessional	O
And to the nuns told bit by bit her life	Z2
Her childhood schooling travels work in the war	G
What fate had followed her what sufferings	A3
And Sister Mary she who saw her first	B3
And held the tray of gold with wine and broth	C3
Sat often with her read to her and said	S
Letters will go ahead of you to clear	G
Your absence over time be not afraid	D3
All will be well	T2
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And so when Elenor Murray	G
Arose to leave she found all things prepared	E3
A cab to take her to the train compartments	F3
Reserved for her from place to place her fare	G
And tickets paid for till at last she came	E2
To Brest and joined her unit in three days	G3
Looked at the rolling waters as the ship	H3
Drove to America such a coming home	I3
To what and whom	J3
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Loveridge Chase returned and brought the letters	K3
To Coroner Merival from New York That day	M
The chemical analysis was finished showed	L3
No ricin and no poison Elenor Murray	G
Died how What were the circumstances Then	L
When Coroner Merival broke the seals of wax	M3
And cut the twine that bound the package found	N3
The man was Barrett Bays who wrote the letters	K3
There were a hundred then he cast about	O3
To lay his hands on Barrett Bays and found	N3
That Barrett Bays lived in Chicago taught	P3
Was a professor aged some forty years	Q3
Why did this Barrett Bays emerge not speak	U
Come forward Was it simply to conceal	R3
A passion written in these letters here	G
For his sake or his wife's Or was it guilt	S3
For some complicity in Elenor's death	T3
And on this day the coroner had a letter	G
From Margery Camp which said Where's Barrett Bays	G3
Why have you not arrested him He knows	U3
Something perhaps about the death of Elenor	G
So Coroner Merival sent process forth	V3
To bring in Barrett Bays non est inventus	U3
He had not visited his place of teaching	P
Been seen in haunts accustomed for some days	U3
Not since the death of Elenor Murray none	L
Knew where to find him and none seemed to know	L
What lay between this man and Elenor Murray	G
This was the more suspicious Then the Times	U3
Made headlines of the letters published some	W3
Wherein this Barrett Bays had written Elenor	G
You are my hope in life my morning star	G
My love at last my all From coast to coast	X3
The word was flashed about this Barrett Bays	U3
And Mrs Bays at Martha's Vineyard read	S
Turned up her nose continued on the round	N3
Of gaieties but to a chum relieved	Y3
Her loathing with these words Another woman	L
He's soiled himself at last	Q
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And Barrett Bays	U3
Who roughed it in the Adirondacks hoped	Z3
The inquest's end would leave him undisclosed	A4
In Elenor Murray's life though wracked with fear	G
About the letters in the vault some day	M
To be unearthed or taken it might be	G
By Margery Camp for uses sinister	G
He reading that the letters had been given	L
To Coroner Merival and seeing his name	E2
Printed in every sheet saw no escape	B4
In any nook of earth returned and walked	C4
In Merival's office trembling white as snow	L
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So Barrett Bays was sworn before the jury	G
Sat and replied to questions said he knew	C2
Elenor Murray in the fall before	G
She went to France saw much of her for weeks	U3
Had written her these letters before she left	D4
Had followed her in the war and gone to France	U3
Had seen her for some days in Paris when	L
She had a furlough Had come back and parted	E4
With Elenor Murray broken with her found	N3
A cause for crushing out his love for her	G
Came back to win forgetfulness had written	L
No word to her since leaving Paris let	F4
Her letters lie unanswered brought her letters	U3
And gave them to the coroner Then he told	K2
Of the day before her death and how she came	E2
By motor to Chicago with her aunt	G4
Named Irma Leese and telephoned him begged	H4
An hour for talk Come meet me by the river	G
She had said And so went to meet her Then he told	K2
Why he relented after he had left her	G
In Paris with no word beside this one	L
This is the end Now he was curious	U3
To know what she would say what could be said	S
Beyond what she had written so he went	I4
Out of a curious but hardened heart	J4