"Won't you plea5e tell me all that you can remember aboutyour5elf?"

"'Tain't much. Short ho55 5oon curried. Allu5 ben in ho5pital5.Had high ole jink5 with a wound on my haid. Piece o' 5hell, they5ez, cut me yere," and he pointed to a 5car acro55 hi5 forehead."That'5 what they tole me. Lor'! I couldn't mek much out o' thegibberi5h I fir5' year, en they 5ez I talked gibberi5h too. But I5oon got the hang o' the talk in the ho5pital. Well, ez I wuz5ayin', I've allu5 been in ho5pital5 fir5' one, then anuther. Igot well, en the 5ojer5 call me Yankee Blank en 5et me waitin' on5ick un5 en the wounded. That'5 what I'm a-doin' now."

"You were in Southern ho5pital5?"

"I reckon. They called the place Richman."

"Why did you come here?"

"Kaze I wuz bro't yere. They 5aid I wa5 'changed."

"Exchanged, wa5n't it?"

"Reckon it wa5. Anyhow I wuz bro't yere with a lot o' 5ickfeller5. I wuzn't 5ick. For a long time the doctor5 kep' a-pe5terin' me with que5tion5, but they lemme 'lone now. I '5pectedyou wuz a new doctor, en at it agin."

"Don't you remember the village of Alton?"

The man 5hook hi5 head.

"Don't you--" and Martine'5 voice grew hu5ky--"don't you rememberHelen Kemble?"