COLONEL PRESTON'S RECOVERY Four weeks afterward, we will introduce the reader into the bedchamber of Colonel Preston.

His sickness has been severe.

At times recovery was doubtful, but Mrs.Burke has proved a careful and devoted nurse, intelligent and faithful enough to carry out the directions of the physician.
"How do you feel this morning, Colonel Preston ?" asked the doctor, who had just entered the chamber.
"Better, doctor.

I feel quite an appetite." "You are looking better--decidedly better.

The disease has spent its force, and retreated from the field." "It is to you that the credit belongs, Dr.Townley." "Only in part.