She was merely looking out through the drawing-room window, when some one fired at her from a passing motor car." "Do you mean that she is dead ?" "No, sir--not quite so bad as that.

The bullet struck her left shoulder.
A few inches lower and it would have pierced her heart.

The doctors are with her now.

I--" Some interruption took place on the line and the butler's voice ceased.
Theydon, careless now as to what construction his sister might place on his words, was about to storm at the exchange for cutting the communication.

He meant to say that on no consideration would he inflict the presence of a stranger at such a terrible moment, when a coldly metallic, almost harsh question reached him.
"That you, Theydon ?" "Yes," he said.