This past month has been, I believe, the hardest I have ever been compelled to live through.

You simply mystify me, so that I alternately hope and despair.

Your methods are cruel." "Mine ?" and she gazed at him with parted lips.

"Lieutenant Brant, what can you mean?
What is it I have done ?" "It may have been only play to you, and so easily forgotten," he went on, bitterly.

"But that is a dangerous game, very certain to hurt some one.