Carmel was still ill, and likely to be so for many days to come.

Her case was diagnosed as one of brain fever and of a most dangerous type.

Doctors and nurses were busy at her bedside and little hope was held out of her being able to tell soon, if ever, what she knew of her sister's departure from the house on that fatal evening.

That her testimony on this point would be invaluable was self-evident, for proofs were plenty of her having haunted her sister's rooms all the evening in a condition of more or less delirium.

She was alone in the house and this may have added to her anxieties, all of the servants having gone to the policemen's ball.