She, feeling her arm thrill with the magnetism of his very vital palm, had her turn at explanation.

"I wouldn't have broke down myself--it was all your fault," she said.

"I saw it--yes--in your face as we left the house.

I'm so glad it's over safe--no one belonging to him here, and not knowing if he'd wake up alive or not--I just was swamped." He took up the misty excuse and explanation.

"I had a feeling for him from the start; and then that Logan Trial to-day, and the way he talked out straight, and told the truth to shame the devil--it's what does a man good! And going bung over a horserace--that's what got me too, where I was young and tender.