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denly and looked down at him.
Look here" she said, you are bet.
ter in every point than | am; you are
stronger you have seen more, you
know more, you are better all round.
IL You We're fool, you zee, | could
despise you; if even you had once
made yourself ridiculous in my eyes
or had demeaned yourself, what l
have to say would come easy
''Come 10 the point at once, Gwen
he said. What is it?"
She took no notice of his remark, but
went to the picture and drew the
coverings over the face.
What has the doctor told you:"
The doctor mas told me nothing
definite"
She turned away to hide her hot
face.
You know perfectly WELL, she said
in a low voice, that shall be the
mother of a child of yours In some
months"
Yes he said gently.
"But you do not know" she went
on, "you do not know that this is
such shame to me, such deathly
burning shame, that l hate the light,
/ hate the eyes of any human creature
on me, would like to fly in the might
to some desert place, and hide my
SELF
Are you mad, Gwen?"
mo, l am sane, as sane as on the
day l sold myself to you for an ex-
pertinent. Can you not see, Humphrey,
that I ann as shameful, your wife,
as any one Of those women you told
me of, not one of whom you loved
loved?" she added, with an inyolun-
tary arising Of her head.
II am no nearer to you now" she
went on, than was that day, not a
jot nearer, and yet / am going to be
the mother of your child! Are you
dense, Humphrey, or is it because you
are a man and are grown used to
chattels, that you cannot see the depth
of my shame and humiliation, and the
reason for it?"
"Sit down, Gwen, sit down at once '
"Yes, yes was yelled from twenty
throats," and here he is"
He was a sufficiently foolish young
man, and seemed floored.
"Ldve far from here?" he asked.
''In Ebury Square" said Strange,
sis there any danger in taking her so
far"
..None, If conveyed on boards in a
four-wheeler
Strange saw at once that the dog
man was the only one who had his
senses about him; Bell though abso-
lutely unhurt, was altogether useless,
and the man had been left at the inn.
You know the horses and cabs here
about?" said Strange. Ger the
smoothest cab and some boards, and
here, you'll want help, don't spare
tips"
The man went, and was back before
the doctor had made up his mind what
to say to cover his ignorance.
A fat woman, who had lent the
mattress to cover the boards, and who
had been lowering over his wife tor
some time, here called Strange aside.
"You had better have your own
doctor at once" she said, "that there
young man Is soft. She wants skill,
and. SIR she added, with a soft
twiddle of her thumb, Il have my sus-
picions."
Strange looked inqniringly at her,
and a cold shiver ran down to his
toes.
For hours after she was brought
home Gwen lay insensible. The doctor
did nothing.
Her physique alone will help her"
he said when Strange seemed to de-
mand action of some sort,
''She will regain her consciousness
all right" he said. ''There is another
complication, / believe" he added,
looking keenly at Strange, shut the
treatment of that must come later"
Again the horrid GOODNESS paralyzed
very marrow.
I'm view of this" the doctor went
on, "what about her mother being sum-
Strange thought for moment Her
mother was, of course, quite out of
the question, and he remembered that
Mrs. Fellowes was i'll.
rs this necessary at onceg he asked.
mo, will tell you when the need
arises--that is, If any should. Her
physique would tide over almost any
thing"
As the clock began to strike mid
night, Strange saw the doctor stoop
and lay his head on Ovens
heart, then open her eyes and touch
her eyeballs.
When he raised himself his face had
altered.
"Now we shall soon see a change"
he said perhaps you had better stand
back, ever the shock of JOY might hurt
her"
Strange gave CHASTITY grin in the
shadow of the curtain.
BY superhuman effort in all those
hours Of anguished waiting, even when
the doctor and the nurse IN their con-
had left him alone for the