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"I should be glad of other medical skill than my own," he said, in low and stifled accents "This -fit"

Mr Challoner at once proffered his services

"I'll go for you anywhere you like," he said cheerily; "and I think e is sure to be in waiting It will be necessary for the lady to have perfect quiet when she recovers, and visitors are best away You need not be alarmed, I am sure By her colour it is evident she is only in a swoon What doctor shall I send?"

Heliobas naht! He shall be here straight Coirls! Mrs Everard, we'll send back our carriage for you and the Colonel Good- night! We'll call to-ratefully pressed his hand as he withdrew, and his wife and daughters, hispered farewells, followed hi everything we could think of to restore animation to that senseless forathered in a little cluster at the drawing-roo with pale and alarure of their beautiful mistress Half an hour or more must have passed in this manner; within the room there was a dreadful silence--but outside the rain poured down in torrents, and the savage wind howled and tore at the s like a besieging army Suddenly A rew faint, staggered, and would have fallen had not her husband caught her on his arasped "I cannot bear it--she looks so still, and she is growing--rigid, like a corpse! Oh, if she should be dead!" And she hid her face on her husband's breast

At that ravel outside; it was the Challoners' carriage returned The coach his master and family at the Grand Hotel, had driven rapidly back in the teeth of the stinging sleet and rain to bring the e that Dr Morini would be with us as soon as possible

"Then," whispered Colonel Everard gently to hly upset, and it's no use having her going off into hysterics I'll call with Challoner to-ement to us all, he slipped softly out of the roo wife; and in a couple of ain drive away