nor slay.

[XXIX]

She sat silent in one corner of the darkened room. It was the bedroom

that Frederick R. Woods formerly occupied--on the ground floor of

Selwoode, opening into the living-hall--to which they had carried

Billy.

Jukesbury had done what he could. In the bed lay Billy Woods, swathed

in hot blankets, with bottles of hot water set to his feet. Jukesbury

had washed his face clean of that awful red, and had wrapped bandages

of cracked ice about his head and propped it high with pillows. It