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"I will ride in to-morrow, to hear what further discoveries you have

made," said Mr Wynne And Dr Belton returned ho his

host and hostess deeply interested

Calling Sister Vera to hiht it possible that poor fellow ht have had a blow

of so from the

effects of it I shall at once adh examination of his head The idea of sunstroke was so

confirht to the hospital that no

one thought of anything else"

"How soon?" asked the nurse

"To-morrow--three o'clock"

And the next afternoon, Cardo's head was thoroughly examined, with the

result that Dr Belton soon found at the back of the skull near the top

a small but undoubted indentation

"Of course," he said, "we uess it before;

but we are blind sometimes--very blind and very stupid"

Cardo was kept under the influence of a sedative that night, and next

day Dr Belton, with the proretted he

had not sooner exercised, procured the help of one of the most noted