She had never been well afterward, and finally, seeing she hadn't long to live, she struck out for home.

Wanted to die among her own people, maybe.

I don't know the rest of the story, Allen.

What I've told you is all I know,--it's like finding a magazine in a country hotel where you haven't anything to read and dip into the middle of a serial story.

I never told anybody about that but my wife.