CHAPTER VIII

IN SAN PEDRO As for Joan Gracie, there in San Pedro awaiting the arrival of the train that was to reëstablish her connection with the world as she had always known it before that surprising day, she also had felt as if she had been through a miracle--something painful, a miracle of new birth, enthralling, like a grip on new life. “Why? Why?” there came a question in her heart. Why had she dressed this man’s wounds and helped him to get away, when it would have been so simple to do what he himself had told her to do…