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Here was a phase of affairs for which Mrs Cameron was not prepared, and excessively ain to quiet her, consoling herself with the reflection that as Morris was Katy's cousin, he would not repeat what he heard, and feeling gratified now that Dr Craig was absent, as she could not be so sure of him If Katy's delirium continued, no one must be admitted to the room except those who could be trusted, and as there had been already several rings, she said to Esther that as the fever was probably ious, no onethe patient, while the servants were advised to stay in their own quarters, except as their services ht be needed elsewhere And so it was that by the morrow the news had spread of some infectious disease at No ---- on Madison Square, which was shunned as carefully as if the s there instead of the brain fever, which increased so fast that Morris suggested to Mrs Caht find hie came down to the office "They could try, at all events," and in a fewthe news of Katy's illness, both to the West, where Wilford had gone, and to the East, where Helen read with a blanched cheek that Katy perhaps was dying, and she was needed again

This was Mrs Ca that some woman besides herself was needed in the sickroo that Helen could be trusted with the story of the firstit so accurately that only a fool would fail of being convinced that there was s