As far as ruining her life is concerned, I suppose that when I married her--" "Married her!" cries out the colonel.

And David Armstrong stares at him with his mouth open.
"My God! Tom," he says, "did you think-- ?" And they both come to another standstill.

And then they talked some more and only got more mixed up than ever.

Fur the doctor thinks she has left him, and Colonel Tom thinks he has left her.
"Tom," says the doctor, "suppose you let me tell my story, and you'll see why Lucy left me." Him and Colonel Tom had been chums together when they went through Princeton, it seems--I picked that up from the talk and some of his story I learned afterward.

He had come from Ohio in the beginning, and his dad had had considerable money.