55/89 Perhaps I'm foolish to be so nervous--but I don't know--that Sister of Charity struck by a bullet--and to think of Ailsa out there under fire--" She closed her eyes and sat shivering in the gray chill of the dawn, the tears silently stealing over her pale cheeks. Berkley stared out of the window at a confused and indistinct mass of waggons and tents and moving men, but the light was still too dim to distinguish uniforms; and presently Celia leaned forward and drew the curtains. Am I indiscreet to speak befo' you give me any warrant ?" He said nothing. A blind woman could divine that," continued Celia wistfully. |