There was a report of a rifle that echoed across the water.
“Hell Gate” or its vicinity had received another victim.
CHAPTER XIII.
MARION FINDS SALLIE.
As Marion rushed back to the hospital a boat moved slowly away from the little dock. It was the boat from Bellevue and had left its usual quota of patients. The horrible scene which she had just witnessed was one which she knew would remain with her always and which she would almost have given her life to have prevented.
“Oh, how terrible his life must have been!” she thought, “if the poor fellow preferred death in such a horrible manner.”
Then, curiously enough, on the very steps of the hospital she came face to face with the “Bible reader.”
“What has happened?” asked the woman, as she read Marion’s horrified expression.
“A convict shot and drowned,” was the young girl’s low answer. “Another victim has paid the penalty of sin or weakness!”
“Unrepentant, unforgiven,” murmured the woman, in horror.