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Two days later, Nell sat beside Falconer He was asleep, but every now

and then he

The great surgeon--who, by the as small and short of stature--had

come down, made his exaone up to the Hall to dinner--at which he had talked fluently

of everything but the case--and returned to London with a big check froh he did not appear to have accoeneral expression of approval of everything the local ed and ns of improvement it was duly placed to Sir

Williareat naht, and Nell, as she watched the

wounded h her Sometimes she

was assailed by the idea that Falconer was not particularly anxious to

live When he ake he would lie quite still, save when a spasm of

pain visited hih when she spoke to hiratitude, a wealth of devotion in them

And for the last two days the pity in Nell's tender heart had grown so

intense that it had become own brother to love itself When a woood"I love

you," she is sorely tenant words,