And as for the girl--" He shrugged his shoulders and tried to laugh.

"Perhaps she came in this morning with one of the up-river scows and was merely taking a little constitutional," he suggested.

"Didn't you ever notice, O'Connor, that in a certain light under poplar trees one's face is sometimes ghastly ?" "Yes, I've noticed it, when the trees are in full leaf, but not when they're just opening, Jimmy.

It was the girl.

Her eyes shattered every nerve in him.