"Well, I'm going now, Jean," and she reached for his hand.
He was almost overcome, and could not look at her directly.
"Be strong, Jean. It will come out all right—it must come out all right—"
"Oh, Agnes, this is too much. Forget it. You should not—"
"Please hush, Jean," she said imploringly, and he glanced up to see tears in her eyes. She looked away to hide them. As she did so, she cried: "Oh, Jean, I know what they have been doing to you—how you have been made to suffer. And—and—I—could never stand to see it after all—" she broke away then, and rushed from him and out of the building. He watched her and when she was gone, he went back to the cot and sat him down, and murmured.
"Agnes, oh, Agnes,—and after all that has passed!"
CHAPTER XVII
THE MYSTERY
AFTER AGNES had consulted with the lawyer, who was glad to go into the case, and agreed to engage a worthy assistant, she returned to Baptiste and said: