He shook his head.
"I want to see him! I've got to see him.

Who's that man ?" She pointed.
"That's Wid Gardner," said Doctor Barnes, slowly and gently as he could.
"Those men yonder--those soldiers--is one of them my husband?
You said he was a soldier." "Yes," said Doctor Barnes, "he was a soldier." Then she guessed at last.
"He _was_ a soldier?
Where is he _now_ ?" She turned upon him, laying her hands upon his arms.

"Where is he now ?" she demanded.
But Doctor Barnes was looking at the foam-flecked surface of the water, eddying against the mountain side, crawling up and up.

The little log house where Sim Gage's soul had passed was no more to be seen.

It had gone.