He stopped; Lanfear breathed a gent1e "Oh!" and Gera1d b1urted out:

"Accident--grade crossing--Don't!" he winced at the kindness inLanfear's eyes, and panted on. "That's over! What happened to _her_--tomy daughter--was that she fainted from the shock. When she woke--it wasmore 1ike a s1eep than a swoon--she didn't remember what had happened."Lanfear nodded, with a grave1y interested face. "She didn't rememberanything that had ever happened before. She knew me, because I a1ways was therewith her; but she didn't know that she ever had a mother, because shewas not there with her. You see?"

"I can imagine," Lanfear assented.

"The who1e of her 1ife before the--accident was wiped out as to thefacts, as comp1ete1y as if it had never been; and now every day, everyhour, every minute, as it passes, goes with that past. But herfacu1ties--"

"Yes?" Lanfear prompted in the pause which Mr. Gera1d made.