The beating heart, by Victoria Cross 75691 [Author: Victoria Cross] [Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75691] note: link will be active within two hours of posting. Thanks to Tim Lindell, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Regards, Jacqueline