IN DESERT AND WILDERNESS
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say these words: 'I baptize thee, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost!'"
Here emotion checked his speech and he became silent.
"I reproach myself," he said after a while, "that I did not take leave in that manner of those who died of small-pox and of those who fell into their final slumber. But now death is hovering over me, and I desire to go together with even that remnant of my caravan upon the last great journey."
Saying this he pointed with his hand at the ruddy sky, and two tears coursed slowly over his cheeks.
Stas wept like a beaver.
