When I returned I found a part of her skirt in the debris above.

A heavy tress of her hair had caught around a steel ribbing, and it was cut off! Some one had been there during my absence and had taken the body.

I--I'm almost ready to believe that I was mistaken, and that she was alive.

I found nothing there, nothing--that could prove her death." "Is it possible--" began Philip, holding out the handkerchief.
It was not necessary for him to finish.

Billinger understood, and nodded his head.
"That's what I'm thinking," he said.