69/89 I offered him my hand; and perhaps he saw the agony in my face, for he didn't say anything about the Canterbury, but he took off his forage cap and was pleasant and kind. And he and Dr.Benton spoke to each other until the bugles sounded for the regiment to mount." She flung her slender arm out in a tragic gesture toward the horizon. "The world is not wide enough to hide in," she said in a heart-breaking voice. "I thought it was--but there is no shelter--no place--no place in all the earth!" "Letty," he said slowly, "if your Dr.Benton is the man I think he is--and I once knew him well enough to judge--he is the only man on earth fit to hear the confession you have made this day to me." She looked at him, bewildered. Tell him about yourself if you choose; or don't tell him. |