It had been given to another; can you guess to whom ?" Irving made no reply, except to chafe the hands which clasped his so tightly, and the doctor continued: "I am surely dying--I shall never see her more, or my boy, my beautiful boy.

I was a brute in the cars; you remember the time.

That was Adah, and those little feet resting on my lap were Willie's, baby Willie's, Adah's baby." The doctor's mind was wandering now, and he kept on disconnectedly: "She's been to Europe with him.

She's changed from the shy girl into a queenly woman.

Even the Richards line might be proud of her bearing, and when I'm gone, tell her I said you might have Willie, and--and--it grows very dark; the noise of the battle drowns my voice, but come nearer to me, nearer--tell her--tell Adah, you may have her.