Four more were dying of the same disease.

So, since no able-bodied men could be spared from the overworked staffs of the lazarets, she was going for a stock of the serum which might save still other victims.

She meant to travel day and night, and if a bullet didn't stop her and if the automobile didn't go through a temporary bridge she would be back, she thought, within forty-eight hours.

She had already made several trips of the sort upon similar missions.

Once her car had been fired at and once it had been wrecked, but she was going again.