I answer for it, the men will be well treated." He saw the tears in her eyes as he spoke; his admiration for her rose higher and higher.

"Kind as well as beautiful," he thought.

"What a charming creature!" "Well!" said Ignatius Wetzel, eying Mercy sternly through his spectacles.

"Are you satisfied?
And will you hold your tongue ?" She yielded: it was plainly useless to resist.

But for the surgeon's resistance, her devotion to the wounded men might have stopped her on the downward way that she was going.