"A little rest is all you need to bring you about again," the physician said.

"Your unsettled nerves have made you morbid.

Don't worry.

Everything will be all right." The newspaper reports of the arrest of Brooks, although they proceeded to arraign and condemn him, had on Witherspoon's nervous system more of a retoning effect than could have been brought about by a doctor's skill.

That Brooks might be guilty, had not been the merchant's fear; but that he himself might in some way be implicated, had been his morbid dread.