Quite unexpectedly, too.

I had come to believe that it would go on and on forever.

But, as I say, all at once it was done and the men were wheeling the bandaged fellow into the other room.

Then the doctor called over his shoulder at me, 'Open the door, girl; let in some air.' So I opened it as he wanted, and came out." Bryant was greatly affected by that simple recital.

He began to walk back and forth beside Louise, restlessly thrusting his hands in his coat pockets but immediately pulling them out as if there were no satisfaction in the action, and casting troubled glances at her from under close-drawn brows.