were now being led to their quarters by st

she wheezed. "None of your business," said Miss Malloy. And the old
woman subsided at this shaft of plain truth.

Our ride was half completed when my companion began to

speak, in a broken monotone.
She addressed no one in particular. If was as though conscience spoke
through unconscious lips. "And I've been foolin' with him just like all
the rest--I thought it was smart! I never knew, for

sure, till back there, and now _he'll_ never know . . . he'll not hear
me when I tell it
to him." Suddenly the monotone grew shrill. "_He'll never hear nothing
of what Eve found out_!" "Quiet! Quiet!" I said, and took
her hand. "He's only hurt. The doctors will bring him around all
right."
"No," she said. "I've been foolin' with him. I've been wicked and mean,
and it's been sent to punish

me." A house surgeon and the engulfing odor of iodofo