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"Suppress all newspapers to-day Convention ation will come to Rouen this afternoon They will come

"HELEN"

Tom rubbed his sticky eyelids, and shook his head violently in a Spartan

effort to rouse himself; but what more effectively perfor from Harkless's room, across the hall For

some minutes, Meredith had been dully conscious of a rustle and stir in

the invalid's cha about

a bed would account for a noise that reached hih two closed doors of thick walnut Suddenly he heard a quick, heavy

tread, shod, in Harkless's roo, as some heavy

object struck the floor The doctor was not to coone down-stairs Who wore shoes in the sick man's room? He rushed across

the hall in his pyjaed and vacant Harkless, fully dressed, was standing

in the

The horrified Meredith stood for a second, bleached and speechless, then

he rushed upon his friend and seized hio of me, Tom!"

"Lunatic! Lunatic!"

"Don't stop me one instant!"

Meredith tried to force hiet back to

bed You're delirious, boy!"

"Delirious nothing I'o to bed"