Among her effects, scraps of letters in the waste-basket, etc., which she had imprudently left at her lodgings, were discovered fragments which, when pasted together, showed conclusively that she was on speaking terms at least with the artilleryman, Wye.
"This evidence I deem it my duty to lay before you.

As a sensitive and chaste woman, gently born, the condition of affairs will horrify you.

But the knowledge of them will also enable you to take measures for self-protection, and to clearly understand the measure which I shall now take to rid the Sanitary Service of this abandoned woman, who, as your friend and intimate associate, conceals her true character under the garb of Sainte Ursula, and who continues her intrigues with the trooper Berkley under the very roof that shelters you.
"I am, madam, with sincere pain and deepest sympathy and respect, "Obediently your humble servant, "EUGENE HALLAM, "Capt.

8th N.Y.

Cav." He laid the letter and the enclosed papers on the bunk beside him, and sat there thinking.
He knew that the evidence before him had been sufficient to drive Letty from the Sanitary Service.