Chapter 24 CHAPTER XXIV

"World if you know what is right,

Take me in his stead,

Bury me deep out of sight,

I am the one that's dead."

THEY took Marie back to the Yellow Sheaf Inn, on the Oxford road, carrying her on a rough stretcher made of a broken gate, covered with coats, and Chris walked beside her, holding her hand in his.

A doctor had come from Somer