evening to thank you and Miss Holden."

Jimmy searched about the court-room until he found the Lizard. "I don't

know how to thank you," he said.

"Don't then," said the Lizard. "Who you ought to thank is that little

girl who is sick in bed up on the north side."

"That's just where I am going now," said Jimmy. "Is she very sick?"

"Pneumonia," said the Lizard. "I telephoned her doctor just before I

came over here, and I guess if you want to see her at all you'd better

hurry."

"It's not that had, is it?" Jimmy said.

"I'm afraid it is," said the Lizard.

Jimmy lost no time in reaching the street and calling a taxi. A nurse

admitted him to the apartment. "How is she?" he asked.

The nurse shook her head.

"Can she see any one?"

"It won't make any difference now," said the nurse, and Jimmy was led

into the room where the girl, wasted by fever and suffering, lay in a

half-comatose condition upon her narrow bed. Jimmy crossed the room and

laid his hand upon her forehead and at the touch she opened her eyes and

looked up at him. He saw that she recognized him and was trying to say

something, and he kneeled beside the bed so that his ear might be closer

to her lips.

"Jimmy," she whispered, "you are free? Tell me."

He told her briefly of what had happened. "I am so happy," she murmured.

"Oh, Jimmy, I am so happy!"

He took one of her wasted hands in his own and carried it to his lips.

"Not on the hand," she said faintly. "Just once, on the lips, before I

die."

He gathered her in his arms and lifted her face to his. "Dear little

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