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"Diphtheria again?"

"Yes; and she, poor thing, was in no state to give it the resolute care

that is the only chance Doctors could be easily found, but I was at my

wit's end for a nurse, till I remembered that Mr Mitchell had told

me of a Sisterhood that have a Ho

established

to see the Superior, and a most kind and sensible lady I found her,

ready to do anything helpful She lent me a nice little Sister, rather

young, I thought; but who turned out thoroughly efficient, nearly as

good as a doctor Still, whether the child lives is very doubtful,

though the mother was full of hope when I went in last She insisted

that I had saved it, when both she and it had been deserted by Maddox,

for who"

"Then she owned that he was Maddox?"

"She called hi the question to her She had

played his gah; and now his desertion has evidently put an

end to all her regard for him It was confusedly and shortly told; the

child was in a state that prevented attention being given to anything

else; but she knows that she had been ht of you, Ailie, had evidently stirred up much old

affection, and remembrance of better days"