Suddenly a new thought came to him.

He touched the bell at his side.
"Nora," he said, when the elderly maid appeared at the door, "bring me one of the big brass candle-sticks from the mantel in the front drawing-room." "Yes, sir," murmured the woman, looking slightly dazed.

In a minute she had returned.

A musical tinkling entered the room with her as she advanced wonderingly toward the bed.

It came from the prism pendants encircling the old-fashioned candelabrum in her hand.
"Thank you.