"I never thanked you yet for what you did for me," he said.
The girl smiled, though her pulses were throbbing painfully.

"It was very little." "No," said Alton gravely.

"I think I should not have been here now if you had not taken care of me, and I'm very grateful.

Still"-- and he glanced down with a wry smile at his knee, which was bent a trifle--"it was unfortunate you and the doctor did not get me earlier.

There are disadvantages in being--all one's life--a cripple." As fate would have it they were interrupted before Miss Deringham could answer, and Alton limped down the stairway very grim in face, while Thorne appeared sympathetic when he overtook him.