"Oh, don't keep her away from me! I want Syd! I want Syd!" That was her one cry.

When exhaustion silenced her, they hoped that the sad delusion was at an end.

No! As the slow fire of the fever flamed up again, the same words were on the child's lips, the same fond hope was in her sinking heart.
The doctor led Mrs.Linley out of the room.

"Is this the governess ?" he asked.
"Yes!" "Is she within easy reach ?" "She is employed in the family of a friend of ours, living five miles away from us." "Send for her instantly!" Mrs.Linley looked at him with a wildly-mingled expression of hope and fear.

She was not thinking of herself--she was not even thinking, for that one moment, of the child.