nything. It was good of you to bring her home to me. The
dear child--she suffers from,--er--what you call emotional insanity, I
think. A little too much love for an old man and his daughter,
possibly. That is what I think. It is nothing worse than that. Thank
you, very much, for bringing her to me. Take this, sir, for your
trouble." He handed him, with bland benevolence, his last dollar.

"Say, I'm gettin' it a good deal better than the cop wot come here to
this house a while ago. He's bein' stuck together at the hospital in a
dozen places, they tell me. He's like a jig-saw puzzle."

"Ah, I wonder what could have occurred to him."

The officer went down the stairs.

"Come in, my child," the flute-player invited M'riar. "Soon you will
be better, doubtless. Yes, I feel quite certain that you will be
better, soon."

He softly closed the door behind them.

"M'riar," he said slowly, "sit down by me. I think I play you
something--just a little something--on my flute."

"My heye!" said M'riar, entranced.

"But no," said Kreutzer. "First come to me. Ah, give me a kiss. Always
shall you have a home with me or with my Anna."

Spellbound, after he had kissed her, she sat close by his feet upon
the floor until he finished playing and laid down the flute. "I s'y!"
she murmured, then.

THE END

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