`` Well , Master , Kilmeny was born a month afterwards , and when Margaret felt her baby at her breast the evil thing that had held her soul in its bondage lost its power . She spoke and wept and was herself again . Oh , how she wept ! She implored us to forgive her and we did freely and fully . But the one against whom she had sinned most grievously was gone , and no word of forgiveness could come to her from the grave . My poor sister never knew peace of conscience again , Master . But she was gentle and kind and humble until -- until she began to fear that Kilmeny was never going to speak . We thought then that she would go out of her mind . Indeed , Master , she never was quite right again . `` But that is the story and it 's a thankful woman I am that the telling of it is done . Kilmeny ca n't speak because her mother would n't . '' Eric had listened with a gray horror on his face to the gruesome tale . The black tragedy of it appalled him -- the tragedy of that merciless law , the most cruel and mysterious thing in God 's universe , which ordains that the sin of the guilty shall be visited on the innocent . Fight against it as he would , the miserable conviction stole into his heart that Kilmeny 's case was indeed beyond the reach of any human skill . `` It is a dreadful tale , '' he said moodily , getting up and walking restlessly to and fro in the dim spruce-shadowed old kitchen where they were . `` And if it is true that her mother 's willful silence caused Kilmeny 's dumbness , I fear , as you say , that we can not help her . But you may be mistaken . It may have been nothing more than a strange coincidence . Possibly something may be done for her . At all events , we must try .
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