contents, I made of my clothes a bundle and took the highway to ask of all the world where lay the road to the vale Yndaia, and where might be found the Regiment de la Reine. Wherever was a camp of soldiers, there I loitered, asking the same question, day after day, month after month. I asked of Indians — our Hudson guides, and the brigaded White Plains Indians. None seemed to know — or if they did they made no answer. And the soldiers did not know, and only laughed, taking me for some camp wanton — — ”

Again she passed her slender hand slowly across her eyes, shaking her head.

“That I am not wholly bad amazes me at times� . I wonder if you know how hunger tampers with the will? I mean more than mere hunger; I mean that dreadful craving never completely satisfied —