"Go on." "There isn't much more to tell," says the doctor, "except that I made a worse idiot of myself yet, and left McMakin about two o'clock in the afternoon, as near as I can recollect.

Somewhere about ten o'clock that night I went home.

Lucy was gone.

I haven't seen her since." "Dave," says Colonel Tom, "did McMakin happen to mention to you, that day, just why he was in Chicago ?" "I suppose so," says the doctor.

"I don't know.