Well, all right, it may be a good place for you after all." As he spoke, frowning, Doctor Barnes stood back and allowed Annie to lead Mary Gage into the vacated rooms of the chief engineer.
"Doc, what did you mean when you said that there just now ?" asked Sim Gage, when they turned back from the door.

"About her and the hospital ?" "I've brought her down here, Sim," said Doctor Barnes directly, "principally because, with her consent and yours, I want to see if I can't do something for her eyes." "Her eyes! Why--what do you mean ?" "There's one chance in a hundred that she'll see again." Doctor Allen Barnes, his face unshaven, dirty, haggard, a man looking neither major nor physician now, turned squarely to the man whom he addressed.

"I don't know for sure," said he, "but then, it may be true." "Her eyes?
-- Her eyes!" Doctor Barnes felt on his arm as savage a grip as he ever had known.
Sim Gage's face changed as he turned away.
"Good God A'mighty! If she could _see_!" His own face seemed suddenly pale beneath its grime..