That is all.' She raised her hand to her head.

After a long pause,-- 'The frogs!' she muttered, 'they croak! I can not hear.' Then, to my surprise, she turned quickly and suddenly on her heel, and walked over the bridge, leaving me standing there.

For a moment I stood aghast, peering after her shadowy figure, and wondering what had taken her.

Then, in a minute or less, she came quickly back to me, and I understood.

She was crying.
'M.