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What if it were so, and this nurse was Genevra? The very thought fired Wilford's brain, and when next his physician cae for the worse exhibited by his patient That surgeon's forte wasfever, and as he held Wilford's hand, he said: "You have a fever,fast Perhaps you would like to see our new physician, Dr Grant He is great on fevers"
"Dr Grant--Dr Morris Grant?" Wilford exclaiy which surprised the surgeon
"Yes, Dr Morris Grant, fro when Wilford rejoined: "Send Satan hily from the firmly set teeth, and Wilford fell back upon his pillow, exhausted with exciteer that Morris Grant should be there in the sa and offered as his physician
"Never while my reason lasts," he whispered to hi more intense with every beat of his wiry pulse
Wilford was very sick, and when next the surgeon caht, restless eyes that reason was tottering
"Shall I send for your friends?" he asked, and Wilford answered, savagely: "I have no friends--none, at least, but ill be glad to know I'm dead"
And that was the last, except the ords of a ht When they said he was dangerous, Marian Hazelton the "new nurse," sought and obtained perain the eyes of the other occupants of the rooly toward her as she bent over the sickhis tuht to the parched lips which hton, of Alnwick and Rome--of the heather on the Scottish rave, where Katy once sat down
"She did not know Genevra was there," he said "She never guessed there was a Genevra; but I knew, and I felt aled by that act of Katy's Do you know Katy?" and his black eyes fastened upon Marian, ith the strange power she possessed over her patients, soothed him into quiet, while she told hiraceful beauty, her loving heart, and the sorrow she would feel when she heard how sick he was