Now, miss, just take a sup or two of this, and your strength will come back in a jiffy.

What was the trouble?
Starving ?" She did exactly as he bade her, every movement mechanical, her eyes fastened upon his face.
"I--I reckon that was partly it," she responded at last, her voice faint and husky.

Then her glance wandered away, and finally rested upon another little kneeling group a few yards farther down stream.

A look of fresh intelligence swept into her face.
"Is that him ?" she questioned, tremblingly.

"Is--is he dead ?" "He was n't when we first got here, but mighty near gone, I'm afraid.
I've been working over you ever since." She shook herself free and sat weakly up, her lips tight compressed, her eyes apparently blind to all save that motionless body she could barely distinguish.