"I don't know.

I've wondered sometimes--" "But you must 'ave come by it some'ow.

Can't you remember ?" He shook his head.
"It has been there always.

And yet I couldn't have been born with it." "'Course yer couldn'," she agreed The mark was pencilled in thin lines of red a little below the right shoulder, across the width of the deltoid muscle, and in figures about half an inch tall.

"'Course yer couldn'," she repeated.