My God, it is terrible! If it had been anyone else--_anyone_--" His words seemed to choke him, and he made a despairing gesture with his hands.

"It is hard to believe--almost impossible to believe she would deliberately kill herself.

Tell me again what happened in your cabin." Crushing all emotion out of his voice, Alan repeated briefly certain details of the girl's visit.

But a number of things which she had trusted to his confidence he did not betray.

He did not dwell upon Rossland's influence or her fear of him.