"They gave me to a man--and he--I had hardly seen him before--he----" She tried but could not pronounce the dreadful word.
"Married, you mean ?" said the young man gently.
The girl shuddered.

"Yes," she answered.

"And I ran away." So strange, so startling, so moving was the expression of her face that he could not speak for a moment.

A chill crept over him as he watched her wide eyes gazing into vacancy.

What vision of horror was she seeing, he wondered.