The wounded man's gaze followed the girl. She smiled back once at him and then followed the nurse down the ward. Jim Horton sank back into his pillows with a gasp. The wounded man's gaze followed the girl. She smiled back once at him and then followed the nurse down the ward. Jim Horton sank back into his pillows with a gasp. "Well—now you've done it. Now you have gone and done it," he muttered. "Well—now you've done it. Now you gone and done it," he muttered. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II THE MYSTERY DEEPENS THE MYSTERY DEEPENS In a courageous moment, a day or so later, the patient requested Nurse Newberry to try to get what information she could as to the whereabouts of his cousin, Corporal James Horton, B Company, —th Engineers, and waited with some impatience and anxiety the result of her inquiries. She discovered that Corporal James Horton had been last seen in the fight for Boissière Wood, but was now reported as missing. In a courageous moment, a day or so later, the patient requested Nurse Newberry to try to get what information she could as to the whereabouts of his cousin, Corporal James Horton, B Company, —th Engineers, and waited with some impatience and anxiety the result of her inquiries. She discovered that Corporal James Horton had been last seen in the fight for Boissière Wood, but was now reported as missing. Missing! Missing! The blank expression on the face of her patient was rather pitiful. The blank expression on the face of her patient was rather pitiful. "It probably means that he's a prisoner. He may be all right. H.Q. is pretty cold-blooded with its information." "It probably means that he's a prisoner. He may be all right. H.Q. is pretty cold-blooded with its information." But the patient knew that Corporal Horton wasn't a prisoner. If he was missing, it was because he had gone to the rear—nothing less than a deserter. Nevertheless the information, even indefinite as it was, brought him comfort. He clung rather greedily to its very
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