he more
easily fatigued little Quakeress.

On the morning of the eighth day I called early, sent by the surgeon
with a message to Miss Ross.

'She asked me to send her word the first moment when I found our
patient sane enough and strong enough to receive a short call, and to
listen for a few moments, not to talk, "that was not needed," she
said,' he added with one of his quiet smiles, 'and when I told her
that when he came to himself the sight of some friend for whom he
cared would help him more than medicine, and asked her if he had any
such, she said that she could at least tell him a bit of pleasant
news, and asked me to send her word at once.'

I was very willing to take the message, and when it was delivered the
little Quakeress thanked me in her own quaint sweet manner, and a few
moments later, while I was talking with Miss Jenrys and giving her
some details of our search for a clue to young Trent's disappearance,
she excused herself quietly and left us without once glancing toward
her niece.

When I visited the hospital in the afternoon, the doctor said:

'Your little Quakeress is certainly a sorceress as well. She came very
soon after you left us yesterday, and she did not stay long. I had
forbidden my patient to talk, and I heard every word she said. It was
a mere nothing, but she has almost cured him.'

'If it was so simple,' I said, half ashamed of my curiosity, yet
having a very good motive for it, 'may I not hear the words that so
charmed and healed him?'

'As nearly as I can repeat them, you may. I had introduced her, as she
bade me, and told him that she had called to see him every day, and I
knew, from the look in those open blue eyes of his, that she was an
utter stranger, and that even her name was unknown to him. He was
pleased though, and small wonder, at sight of the dainty,
white-haired, sweet-voiced little lady; and when she took his hand in
hers and, holding it between both her own, said, in her pretty Quaker
fashion: "I am very glad and thankful to see thee so much better, and
my niece June will be also--I mean Miss Jenrys, who, hearing of thy
adventure and injuries, came at once to see if it were really the
friend she thought she recognised in the description. My niece's
friends are mine, and so I have assumed an old woman's privilege and
paid thee a visit daily, and now that thee seems much better I will,
with thy permission, bring her with me when I come again."' The doctor
stopped