or was not insanity.]

[Footnote 34: It is really dreadful to think of the nuisance we must
have been to these dear people on the eve of their own flight.]

[Footnote 35: The Commandant had his own scheme for going back to Ghent,
which fortunately he did not carry out.]

[Footnote 36: This girl's courage and self-devotion were enough to
establish our innocence--they needed no persuasion. But I still hold
myself responsible for her going, since it was my failure to control my
obsession that first of all put the idea in her head.]

[Footnote 37: I saw nothing sinister about this arrangement at the time.
It seemed incredible to me that I should not return.]

[Footnote 38: Having saved the suit-case, I guarded it as a sacred
thing. But Dr. Hanson's best clothes and her surgical instruments were
in the tin box after all.]

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