And now as the dusk deepened she had the strangest feelings.

Her year and a half in the city seemed hurried and feverish as a dream.

Her mind ran back into the past and on into the future.

Only a few days before, the round robin letter had come again.

In it the girl who had married the mining engineer out West had told of having a baby in a little town in Montana.
Ethel had thought of the doctor then.
She rose now and got the letter and re-read it slowly.