You Never Know Your Luck, Complete

e Young Doctor, with a quizzical smile. "

, swinging her hat by its ribbon. "Mi

des quite well," retu

please

book. It fits the life in which it moves like the paper on the wall. But

my character was sick inside,

and see what's wrong with

ined. "I thought I could stand anything, but your operation on Mr. Crozier taught

," the Young Doctor

do the carving," she rejoined wickedly. The Young Doctor always incited her to say daring th

e glad to get you without the a

of a man; I was ta

nd his eyebrows. "Is

een have been

eelin

bserved you had any," she replied. "If I saw that you had, I'd be so frightened I'd fly. I've seen pictur

ed. It was not the look which would be in his eyes if he were speaking to the woman he wanted to marry. Kitty saw it, and she did not understand it, for she had at heart a feeling that she could go to him in any trouble of life and be sure of healing. To her he s

he did not realise it, for she did not expect to find it there. For an instant, however, he saw with new eyes that primary eloquence of woman life, the unspent splendour of youth, the warm joy of the material being, t

id, with a shake of the head. "You'll come

er with me," she retorted. "Sometimes in operating for one disease

y in her eyes, an almost pathetic appealing. "If you were going to operate

not usual, but I should strike for the can

?" she asked. All at once she felt sure that he read her

deliberately. "How do you know it

ismayed by the look in her face. "But I

you do-as a surgeon?" she questio

e the cause of

ay east or west to the sea for change of air to get well. That's nonsense, and it isn't necessary. You are absolutely wrong in your diagnosis-if that's what you call it. He is going to stay here. You aren't going to drive away one of our boarders and take the b

or suspicion. He respected her for it. He might have said he loved her for it-with a kind of love which c

real woman she was. He felt, too, that she would tell him som

hat you are right, if I am wr

married," she said, w

mpossible-there's no man worth it

he's going to be. What did you come here for? Why did you want to see m

sionally. He can go on now without my care. Yours will be sufficient for him. It has been

m that leaped under her pretty gown. "You don't mean that I was

nd the strain of the situation. I knew an old man-down by Dingley's Flat it was, and he wanted a boy-his grand-nephew-beside him always. He was getting well, but the boy took sick and the old man died the next day. The boy had

she said softly, her

, "the fact is, Crozier's almost well in a way, but his mind is in a state, and he is not going to get wholly right a

been asleep in a way for five years, and now he's awake again. He is not James Gathorne Kerry now; he is Ja

y. "What a little brazen wonder yo

irit. "I'm too conceited. I must marry a girl that'd kneel to me and think me as wise as Socr

le, I can tell you. Stuckup, great tall stork of a woman, that lords it over a man as though she

o your opinion of me. You said I was a fis

e and the

at do you know about Mrs. Crozier? You may be b

she asked half tearfully.

wered. "But tell me, how did you come to

, I was a busy golde

esn't get me much fu

at letter,"

us which he had left sealed as it came to him five yea

uld I have done it! I steamed it open, s

w of such conduct. He almost shrank from her, though she stood there as inviting and inn

that means?" he asked

he Evangelist," she retorted. "I did it, not out of curiosit

rable-wicked and

. Piety, I'm off," she rej

er arm. "Of course you did it for a good purpo

im. "I cared enough to do a good deal more than that if

th. Sheil Crozier as a "father" to her was too arti

come quick," she explained. "It was when he was at the worst. And then, t

ad kept unopened and unread for five long years?

n a good cause. If he had said, 'Courage, soldier,' and opened it five years

of a letter, was i

es, just like that, Mr. Easily Shocke

u wrote

anything would. Talk of tact-I was as smoo

ation I cabled to her,"

er open and read it too?"

wer. "I cabled to Castlegarry, his father's place, also to Lammis tha

y. "I don't think she'll come. I asked her to cable me, and she

houlders. "Kitty Tynan, the man who gets you

ht mean a

zier owes you more

ange, soft glow. "In spit

hat letter you wrote her-I'm not sure that my cabl

, but I tried to coax her, to make her fe

r dubiously. "What was the s

nd nurse could give him; but that, of course, his legitimate wife would naturally be glad

ned against a tree s

he'll be sure to come-nothing will keep her away after be

exclaimed. "Laughing when, as you say yourself, the man th

added, with a protesting gesture. "I don't want to hear. I don't want to know. I oughtn't to kno

s got a chance of making a fortune, and he can't do it because

pretty good idea.

an some

m," urged the Young Doctor. "I have helped mo

arm. "You are a

possible,"

slowly towards the house. Mrs. Tynan met them at the door, a loo

itty eagerly. "It's a

ght shot up in her face. She thrust the

ec now. It was my letter-my letter, not your ca