The lion and the unicorn . rthermometer slipped from her fingers and broke,and she gave an exclamation of annoyance. Theyoung Doctor picked up the pieces and tossed themoverboard. Neither of them spoke, but theysmiled appreciatively. The Lieutenant was look-ing at the nurse with the wonder and hope andhunger of soul in his eyes with which a dying manlooks at the cross the priest holds up before he saw where the German nurse was kneel-ing was a tall, fair girl with great bands andmasses of hair, with a head rising like a lily froma firm, white throat, set on broad shoulders abovea stra
The lion and the unicorn . rthermometer slipped from her fingers and broke,and she gave an exclamation of annoyance. Theyoung Doctor picked up the pieces and tossed themoverboard. Neither of them spoke, but theysmiled appreciatively. The Lieutenant was look-ing at the nurse with the wonder and hope andhunger of soul in his eyes with which a dying manlooks at the cross the priest holds up before he saw where the German nurse was kneel-ing was a tall, fair girl with great bands andmasses of hair, with a head rising like a lily froma firm, white throat, set on broad shoulders abovea straight back and sloping breast—a tall, beauti-ful creature, half-girl, half-woman, who lookedback at him shyly, but steadily. Listen, he said. The voice of the sick man was so sure and so sanethat the young Doctor started, and moved nearerto the head of the cot. Listen, dearest, theLieutenant whispered. I wanted to tell you be-fore I came South. But I did not dare; and thenI was afraid something might happen to me, and 148. c On the Fever Ship I could never tell you, and you would never I wrote it to you in the will I made at Baiquiri,the night before the landing. If you hadnt comenow, you would have learned it in that way. Youwould hav^e read there that there never was any-one but you; the rest were all dream people, fool-ish, silly—mad. There is no one else in the worldbut you; you have been the only thing in life thathas counted. I thought I might do somethingdown here that would make you care. But I gotshot going up a hill, and after that I wasnt ableto do anything. It was very hot, and the hillswere on fire; and they took me prisoner, and keptme tied down here, burning on these coals. I cantlive much longer, but now that I have told you Ican have peace. They tried to kill me before youcame; but they didnt know I loved you, theydidnt know that men who love you cant tried to starve my love for you, to burn itout of me; they tried to reach it with their kni
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