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THE SECOND CONSIGNMENT.
Who has lost all hope has also lost all fear.
Among others, it was a strange thing that Jocelyn felt no surprise at meeting the name of Millicent Chyne on the lips of another man.

Women understand these things better than we do.

They understand each other, and they seem to have a practical way of accepting human nature as it is which we never learn to apply to our fellowmen.

They never bluster as we do, nor expect impossibilities from the frail.
Another somewhat singular residue left, as it were, in Jocelyn's mind when the storm of emotion had subsided was a certain indefinite tenderness for Millicent Chyne.