murdered! It caused her no surprise, for her whole life was ruined.

Kneeling on the carpet, utterly forgetting where she was, noticing

no one else, she gazed fixedly at her boy's face and listened with

her hand on his heart. Then she gave a feeble sigh--she had felt

the heart beating. And with that she lifted her head and

scrutinized the room and the woman and seemed to remember. A fire

glowed forth in her vacant eyes, and she looked so great and

terrible in her silence that Nana trembled as she continued to