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"But why? Had he been injured, John?"

"Very badly The hospital books showed that he had been brought there by two sailors, who said he had been struck in a gale by a falling mast The wound healed, but left him mentally a wreck The physicians decided that the brain was suffering fro would relieve, if it did not cure"

"Then as it not done at first?"

"Whose interest was it to inquire? No money was left with the injured ave false names, and address, and he received only such treatment as a pauper patient was likely to receive But he ine nohat a trial was before madame! It was a difficult matter to perform the operation, for the patient could not be made to understand its necessity; and he was very hard to e Then picture to yourselves, the terrible strain of nursing which followed; though htened by her husband's recognition of her After that event all weariness was rest, and suffering ease; and as soon as he was able to travel both were determined to return at once to their own home He is yet however a sick ht paralysis of the lower limbs"

"Does he remember hoas hurt?"

"He declares histo New York, he had taken on a cargo for the East India Coiven him either by his first, or second mate He thinks they sailed his ship out of the Thames, for her papers were all made out, and she was ready to drop down the river with the next tide He vows he will get well and find his ship and the rascals that stole her; and I should not wonder if he does He has will enough for anything Madao there with o Madame is like no one else"

"She is not like herself at present I think you ht, one care, one end and aim in life--her husband"

The Doctor had judged correctly Cornelia was disappointed fro-rooods, and odd treasure-trove for nearly half an hour before raven faces, so marvellously instinct with life, made her miserable; she fancied a thousand ht of Hyde, or Arenta, or of the happy hours spent in that ill-boding room, could charm away its sinister influence