"Well, rather," laughed Quinlevin.
The nurse had approached and the girl Moira had moved to the foot of the bed. Barry Quinlevin paused a moment, putting a slip of paper in Horton's hand.
"Well, au revoir, old lad. In a few days again——"
The wounded man's gaze followed the girl. She smiled back once at him and then followed the nurse down the ward. Jim Horton sank back into his pillows with a gasp.
"Well—now you've done it. Now you have gone and done it," he muttered.
CHAPTER II
THE MYSTERY DEEPENS
In a courageous moment, a day or so later, the patient requested Nurse Newberry to try to get what information she could as to the whereabouts of his cousin, Corporal James Horton, B Company, —th Engineers, and waited with some impatience and anxiety the result of her inquiries. She discovered that Corporal James Horton had been last seen in the fight for Boissière Wood, but was now reported as missing.
Missing!
The blank expression on the face of her patient was rather pitiful.