He spoke but one word--'Sister!' Yet that word has never left my ears, sleeping or waking, from that time to this.

I had a sister once myself, Sam, and I loved her a thousand times more than I did life.

In fact I never loved life after I lost her.

And I can't tell you all about her--I'd choke if I tried.

It is enough that she died, and the cause of her death died soon after, and I wasn't far away when--when he went under.