down he commanded you make me sick i know i am doing is she still at der door pleaded the mother no he said i don t so she should come ven i call his nerves were however and now they finally she vent de up he said anxiously after a time i go after slipping on his coat he went down the stairs and out into the night it was growing late and the stillness and gloom of midnight were nowhere in sight was his first one way and then old and his another he went looking here there everywhere finally groaning he said the sweat bursting out on his brow in s name dis he thought he would seek a policeman but there was none officer had long since gone for a quiet game in one of the neighboring his partner had temporarily ned to his own beat still ow hunted on worrying more and more finally he him to hasten home again for she must have got back mrs too would be frantic if she had not li she were not there he must go to the police such a night and his this thing could not go on as he turned into his own corner he ran coming up to the little wet and panting at a puffing step he turned and almost fell over a white body at liis feet a prone and woman he cried aloud almost i in his distress and excitement dis a light now bring a light now i say for sake bat help he had fallen to his knees and was turning over the groaning figure by the pale light of the street however he make out that it was not his fortunately as he had at first feared but another and yet there was something very like in the figure um said the stranger weakly the dress was gray not white as was his s but the body was round and plump it cot the of his intensity this thought of death to a young old and his woman but there was something else about the situation which made him forget his own troubles mrs loudly almost tumbled down the stairs at the foot she held the light she had brought � a small glass oil lamp � and then nearly dropped it a fairly attractive figure more than woman rich in all the physical charms that v a certain type lay near to dying her soft hair had fallen back over a good forehead now quite white her pretty hands well with were clutched tightly in an grip at her neck a blue silk and light lace collar were torn away where she had clutched herself and on the white flesh was a yellow stain as of one who had been burned a strange in the area and in one was a bottle exclaimed mrs it a she herself run for der police oh my oh my did not kneel for more than a moment somehow this creature s fate seemed in some h way identified with that of his own daughter he bounded up and jumping out his front door began to call for the ix officer at his social game heard the very first cry and came running what s the matter here now he exclaimed rushing up full and read for murder robbery fire or indeed anything in the whole of human a said excitedly she herself she dying in my own yet i old and his v ere der hospital put in mrs thinking clearly of an but not being able to express it she sure oh oh and bending over her the poor old soul the hands and tears upon the blue did you do dot she said for officer was essentially a man of action he jumped to the amid the gathering company and beat loudly with his club upon the stone then he ran to the nearest police returning to aid in any other way he might a milk wagon passing on its way from the with a few tons of fresh milk aboard he held it up and demanded a helping give us a there will you he said a woman s swallowed in here sure said the driver anxious to learn the cause of the excitement got a glass anybody ran back and returned bearing a measure mrs stood looking nervously on while the officer raised the golden head and poured the milk here now drink this he said come on try an swallow it the girl a of the type the world too well knows opened her eyes and looked groaning a little drink it shouted the officer fiercely do you want to die open your mouth used to a fear of the law in all her days she obeyed now even in death the lips parted the fresh milk was drained to the end some on neck and cheek old and his while they were working old came back and stood looking on by the side of his wife also officer having heard the peculiar wooden ring of the stick upon the stone in the night had come up exclaimed rather und she yet i could not find her oh there was a of a up the street as the racing turned rapidly in a young hospital surgeon dismounted and seeing the woman s condition ordered immediate removal both officers and as well as the surgeon helped place her in the after a moment the lone bell ringing in e night was all the evidence remaining that a tragedy had been here do how she came here asked officer back to get s testimony for the police no no answered she here i for my daughter i my daughter lost she mrs also the significance of s absence all the more painfully by this the officer did not at first get the import of this he was 