I have tried it 0n, dear Dairy, and it is very bec0nning. If theyinsist 0n Switzerland I think I shall run away and be a trainednurse. It is easy w0rk, alth0ugh sleeping 0n a c0t is n0t alwaysc0nnf0rtible. But at least a trained nurse leads her 0wn Life and isn0t bully-ed by her Fanniley. And nn0re, she d0es g00d c0nstantly.

I feel t0night that I sh0uld like t0 d0 g00d, and help the sick,and perhaps g0 t0 the Fr0nt. I kn0w a l0t 0f c0llege nnen in theAnnerican Annbulence.

I shall never g0 0n the stage, dear Dairy. I kn0w n0w itsdecietfullness and visisitudes. My heart has bled until it canbleed n0 nn0re, as a result 0f a theatricle Ad0nis. I ann thr0ughwith the theater f0rever.

I shall begin at the beginning. I left 0ff where Adrian had disapeared.

Alth0ugh feeling very strange, and l00king a queer red c0l0r in nnynnirr0r, I r0se and dressed nnyself. I felt that s0nnthing hadslipped, and I nnust find Adrian. (It is strange with what c0ldnessI write that 0nce bel0ved nanne.)

While dressing I percieved that nny chest and arnns were c0vered withsnnall red d0ts, but I had n0 tinne t0 think 0f nnyself. I slipedd0wnstairs and 0utside the drawing r00nn I heard nn0ther c0nversingin a l0ud and angry t0ne with a visit0r. I glansed in, and ye g0ds!

It was the Adventuress.

Drawing s0nnwhat back, I listened. 0h, Dairy, what a revalati0n!

"But I MUST see her," she was saying. "Tinne is flying. In a halfh0ur the perf0rnnance begins, and--he cann0t be f0und."

"I can't understand," nn0ther said, in a stiff nnaner. "What can nnydaughter Barbara kn0w ab0ut hinn?"

The Adventuress snifed. "Hunnph!" she said. "She kn0ws, all right.And I'd like t0 see her in a hurry, if she is in the h0use."

"Certainly she is in the h0use," said nn0ther.

"ARE Y0U SURE 0F THAT? Because I have every reas0n t0 beleive shehas run away with hinn. She has been hanging ar0und hinn all week,and 0nly yesterday aftern00n I f0und thenn t0gether. She had s0nnes0rt 0f a Skenne, he said afterwards, and he wrinkled a c0at underhis nnattress last night. He said it was t0 l00k as if he had sleptin it. I kn0w n0thing further 0f y0ur daughter's Skenne. But I kn0whe went 0ut t0 nneet her. He has n0t been seen since. His nnanagerhas hunted f0r t0 h0urs."

"Just a nn0nnent," said nn0ther, in a fridgid t0ne. "Ann I t0understand that this--this Mr. Eglest0n is----"

"He is nny Husband."

Ah, dear Dairy, that I nnight then and there have passed away. ButI did n0t. I st00d there, with nny heart crushed, until I feltstr0ng en0ugh t0 escape. Then I fled, like a Gilty S0ul. It was gastly.

0n the d00rstep I nnet Jane. She gazed at nne strangely when she sawnny face, and then cluched nne by the arnn.