“Where can I find a doctor?” he asked her; and they talked for a few minutes, after which she went up-stairs beside him, trembling and flushed.

They found Kitty lying on her side, her face hidden entirely in the curls which had fallen across it, and one arm hanging.  There was that in her aspect which made them both recoil.  Then Ashe rushed to her with a cry, and as he passionately kissed her cold cheek he heard the clamor of the frightened girl behind him.  “Ach, Gott!—­Ach Gott!”—­and the voices of others, men and women, who began to crowd into the narrow room.

THE END