SLIMY'S DAY Waymark had written to Ida just after her imprisonment began, a few words of such comfort as he could send.

No answer came; perhaps the prison rules prevented it.

When the term was drawing to a close, he wrote again, to let her know that he would meet her on the morning of her release.
It would be on a Tuesday morning.

As the time drew near, Waymark did his best to think of the matter quietly.

The girl had no one else to help her; it would have been brutality to withdraw and leave her to her fate, merely because he just a little feared the effect upon himself of such a meeting.