A Sacred Confidence 'Duke Radford was very ill.

For a week he hovered between life and death, and Mrs.Burton's skill was taxed to the uttermost.

There was no doctor within at least a hundred miles.

One of the fishers at Seal Cove had set the broken collar bone, the work being very well done too, although the man was only an amateur in the art of bone-setting.

But it was not the broken bone, nor any of his bruises and abrasions, which made 'Duke Radford's peril during that black week of care and anxiety.