4/35 He has borne the journey almost better than I had feared." "And now we will nurse him back to health and strength," cried Magdalen, with earnestness. "Alas that so good a man should have to suffer so sorely!" Freda observed that her father turned his head slightly away. She felt a sort of constriction at the heart, but it was Dalaber who put the next question. "What of Sumner and Radley who were with him in prison ?" Dr.Langton paused a brief while before answering, and then he said in a low and moved voice: "Radley was scarce alive when we came to them. They were all taken to the Bridge House, where we had made preparation to receive them. |