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"Please do not speak of it again," she replied "I cannot leave father andand nervous a child to be forced to go away alone We ether, and hope the best fro all in my power to save my dear old friend Poland," said the physician huskily, and then he shook his head as if he had little hope "How is he now?"

"Better, I think Dr Orton, this is the friend of whom I spoke, Mr Haldane"

"You have always lived at the North?" asked the physician, looking the young lance

"Yes, sir"

"Do you realize the probable consequences of this exposure to one not acclimated?"

"Dr Orton, I am a medical student, and I have come to do my duty, which here will be to carry out strictly your directions I have only one deep cause for anxiety, and that is that I may be taken with the disease before I can be of ive me work at once"

"Give me your hand, old fellow You do our profession credit, if not fully fledged You are right, we must all do e can while we can, for the Lord only kno many hours are left to any of us But, A in the same breath to find you still in this infernal city A friend pro and take you and your sister away"

"We cannot go"

"Well, well, as long as the old doctor is above ground he will try to take care of you; and this young gentleman can be invaluable if he can hold on for a while before following too general a fashion Come, sir, I will install you as nurse at once"

"Doctor, Doctor Orton, what have you brought for irl, fair and blue-eyed, ca theood little fairy," said the kind-heartedher "Look in my pockets, little one, and see what you can find"

With delightful unconsciousness of the shadows around her the child fumbled in his pockets and soon pulled out a picture-book

"No candy yet?" she exclai but good plain food till next winter You nificantly to the elder sister

"Yes, as far as possible I ait for you here"