The moonwith the wild skurry of clouds hastening to blot it out of sightseemed to mirror the chaos threatening my better impulses; and, idly keeping it in view, I rode on, hardly conscious of my course till the rapid recurrence of several well-known landmarks warned me that I had taken the longest route home, and that in another moment I should be skirting the grounds of The Whispering Pines, our country clubhouse.

There was nothing for it but to skurry for the wings of convention.

Then all was hurry-skurry in the hospitals; everybody was willing to help, but the effectual organization was not yet ready.