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during storms and midday warmth in such shelter as 

 they could find. It was a week's hard travelling to 

 cover that last long stage ; but the heathen woman 

 was happy, for to her it was the last stage of her 

 long journey homewards, for in the bleak village of 

 Killinek home and comfort awaited her. 



And there I saw her in the following summer, 

 living with her husband in a hut on the sea beach, 

 and in the hospitality of her heart giving a home to 

 a poor old woman, bent and crippled with age 

 old Tuglavi's other widow. 



But the story is not yet ended. 



Strangely enough, at the same time that I was 

 writing the story of how this heathen woman led 

 blind Juliana to church, the missionary at Killinek 

 was drawing up his annual report and all unwittingly 

 telling us the sequel ; for in that report we read that 

 this same woman has lately been baptised a Chris- 

 tian, and is now no longer a heathen, but a follower 

 of the Lord Jesus Christ. 



And so, by a long and winding road, the heathen 

 woman has found her home. 



