"Oh, Jasper, it was when you were gone to Lakenhall for the doctor—that last time!"
"Well?"
"She knew the end was near. Poor thing! Poor thing!"
"What did she say?"
"That she'd die more happier if only she could speak—if only I would send——"
"Not for Carlton?"
The wife could only nod in her fear and desperation.
"You sent for that man the moment my back was turned?"
"Oh, I knew that'd make you right wild—I knew—I knew!"