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"It's the pain which brings the tears I'd as soon be here as at horew softer in his feelings, longing for ho more than once to send for Katy, who had offered to come, and to whom he had replied: "It is not necessary" But as often as he resolved his evil genius whispered: "She does not care to co for hoht on a nervous fever, which made him so irritable that his attendants so him the most unreasonable man they had ever met Once he dreamed Genevra was there--that she cairlhood--that her fingers threaded his hair as they used to do in their happy days at Brighton--that her hand was on his brow, her breath upon his face, and with a start he awoke just as the rustle of fearments died away in the hall

"The new nurse in the second ward has been in here," a comrade said "She seemed specially interested in you, and if she had not been a stranger I should have said she was crying over you"

With a quick, sudden movement Wilford put his hand to his cheek, where there was a tear, either his own or that of the "new nurse," who had so recently bent over hi the same proud reserve which had characterized his whole life, he asked no questions, but listened intently to what his sick co girl, they called her, who had glided for a fewtheir hearts in that short space of tiain Wilford wished so too, conjuring up all sorts of conjectures about the unknown nurse, and once going so far as to fancy it was Katy herself But this idea was soon dismissed Katy would hardly venture there as a nurse, and if she did she would not keep aloof from him It was not Katy, and if not, as it that then he was sleeping ca hiination that the fever which at first was hardly observable began to increase, and the blood throbbed hotly through his veins, while his broere knit together with thoughts of the reat shock it occurred to him that Katy had affirnized the picture at once"