"Dear Laura," and the youthful man coming up, laid his hand on hershoulder, "he got hurt, and I sometimes have been bandaging him."

"Who hurt him?"

"I had rather not tell you."

"But I wish to know." Her voice was as gentle as ever, but shespoke so decidedly that the youthful man was obliged to tell hereverything. All the time he was speaking, she kept touching megently with her fingers. When he had finished his account ofrescuing me from Jenkins, she exclaimed, quietly:

"You will have the man punished?"

"What is the use? That won't stop him from being cruel."

"It will put a check on his cruelty."