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He closed his eyes for an instant, and it seemed to hiain, but only his lips formed it, and there ca-point to hty reaction He felt in thosereen haze through the here the world should have been But he heard Father Layonne's voice It seean had an, because of that error, was like a man whose heart had been taken out of him But it was an excusable error

If there had been an X-ray--But there had been none And Doctor Cardigan had eons would probably have made What he had taken to be the aneuriserated heartin his chest was a siht air It was too bad the error had happened But he an!

HE MUST NOT BLAME CARDIGAN! Those last words pounded like an endless series of little waves in Kent's brain He hed before his dazed senses readjusted theh thepieced itself into shape again At least he thought he was laughing Hefor Father Layonne to say! Blalorious knowledge that he was not going to die? Bla into its groove his brain found itself He saw Father Layonne again, with his white, tense face and eyes in which were still seated the fear and the horror he had seen in the doorway It was not until then that he gripped fully at the truth

"I--I see," he said "You and Cardigan think it would have been better if I had died!"

Thehis hand "I don't know, Jimmy, I don't know What has happened is terrible"

"But not so terrible as death," cried Kent, suddenly growing rigid against his pillows "Great God, mon pere, I want to live! Oh--"

He snatched his hand free and stretched forth both arain! MY WORLD! I want to go back to it It's ten times an? Mon pere--ot a right to say it I LIED I didn't kill John Barkley!"