26/44 "I was going along as I told you, and I noticed her stop and thought she had a good head to wait a second instead of running in before me, and there came those two girls right under the car from the other side. I only had a glimpse of her as she stooped for the flowers. I saw a big braid of hair, but I was half a block away before I got it all connected, and then came the crush in the street, and I was blocked." The doctor broke down and wiped his face and expressed his feelings unrestrainedly. "It's no use to feel so badly, Doc. I know what you would give to have found her for me. |