But my hand was as steady as a rock, and after the last game was over I fainted." "Good Lord," she said, "what a terrible life! But, suppose you fall into sickness and poverty.

Then you may fall into arrear, and she will lose everything after all." He laughed aloud.

A strange wild laugh.

"No," said he; "I am safe there, if physicians are to be believed.

Sometimes, when I am falling asleep, my head begins to flutter and whirl, and I sit up in bed, breathless and perspiring till it grows still again.