nds and masses of hair, with a head rising like a lily
from a firm, white throat, set on broad shoulders above a straight back
and sloping breast--a tall, beautiful creature, half-girl, half-woman,
who looked back at him shyly, but steadily.

"Listen," he said.

The voice of the sick man was so sure and so sane that the young Doctor
started, and moved nearer to the head of the cot. "Listen, dearest," the
Lieutenant whispered. "I wanted to tell you before I came South. But I
did not dare; and then I was afraid something might happen to me, and I
could never tell you, and you would never know. So I wrote it to you in
the will I made at Baiquiri, the night before the landing. If you hadn't
come now, you would have learned it in that way. You would have read
there that there never was any one but you; the rest were all dream
people, foolish, silly--mad. There is no one else in the world but you;
you have been the only thing in life that has counted. I thought I might
do something down here that would make you care. But I got shot going
up a hill, and after that I wasn't able to do anything. It was very hot,
and the hills were on fire; and they took me prisoner, and kept me tied
down here, burning on these coals. I can't live much longer, but now
that I have told you I can have peace. They tried to kill me before you
came; but they didn't know I loved you, they didn't know that men who
love you can't die. They tried to starve my love for you, to burn it out
of me; they tried to reach it with their knives. But my love for you
is my soul, and they can't kill a man's soul. Dear heart, I have lived
because you lived. Now that you know--now that you understand--what does
it matter?"

Miss Bergen shook her head with great vigor. "Nonsense," she said,
cheerfully. "You are not going to die. As soon as we move you out of
this rain, and some food cook--"

"Good God!" cried the young Doctor, savagely. "Do you want to kill him?"

When she spoke the patient had thrown his arms heavily across his face,
and had fallen back, lying rigid on the pillow.

The Doctor led the way across the prostrate bodies, apologizing as he
went. "I am sorry I spoke so quickly," he said, "but he thought you were
real. I mean he thought you were some one he really knew--"

"He was just delirious," said the German nurse, calmly.

The Doctor mixed himself a Scotch and soda and drank it with a single
gesture.

"Ugh!" he said to the ward-room. "I feel as