"I can't live without you.

You said-----" "O bother what I said,"-- and the Colonel took up his sword to buckle it on, and then continued coolly, "the fact is Laura, our romance is played out." Laura heard, but she did not comprehend.

She caught his arm and cried, "George, how can you joke so cruelly?
I will go any where with you.
I will wait any where.

I can't go back to Hawkeye." "Well, go where you like.

Perhaps," continued he with a sneer, "you would do as well to wait here, for another colonel." Laura's brain whirled.