As it was, the noise brought the two girls there, and I never investigated the matter or tried to find out which one it was that he had been visiting.

They were both terror-stricken, and the young man himself was in a state of great fear.

He thought for a moment that he had been killed.

However, he was only shot in the leg, and I sent him to the house of a physician who keeps such patients as do not wish to go to the hospital.

I did not care to have him go to the hospital, because I was afraid the newspapers would get hold of the incident, and make a sensation of it.