But she had to live.

I got rid of some of our property in Tennessee, and took enough cash up there with me to fix her, in a decent sort of way, for the rest of her life, and put it in the bank.

I was with her there for ten days; then I went back home to get Aunt Lucy Davis to help me in another effort to persuade her to return.
But when I got back North with Aunt Lucy she had gone." "Gone ?" "Yes, and when we returned without her to Tennessee there was a letter telling us not to try to find her.

We thought--I thought--that she might have taken up with you once again." "But, my God! Tom," the doctor busts out, "you were with her ten days there in Galesburg! Didn't she tell you then--couldn't you tell from the way she acted--that she had married me ?" "That's the odd thing, Dave," says the colonel, very slow and thoughtful.

"That's what is so very strange about it all.