She had partly risen in her excitement, but now fell back with a low moan, shutting her eyes and turning her face away.

Even as she did so, a young man stepped back from the door of the elegant house in which she lay with a baffled, disappointed air.

He looked pale and wretched.
"Edith!" Two hours afterward the doctor stood over the young mother, and called her name.

She did not move nor reply.

He laid his hand on her cheek, and almost started, then bent down and looked at her intently for a moment or two.