CHAPTER XVI.
DISPERSING CLOUDS.
Two months had slipped away, and still Charles Williams remained a patient in the Westlake Hospital at Sydney.

At length, after a consultation of the doctors, it was proposed that he should be consigned to the workhouse infirmary.
"We can't keep him here forever," said Dr.Emerton; "and as all the beds will be wanted with this outbreak of diphtheria, I see nothing else to be done." "Well," said Dr.Belton, "I am deeply interested in his case, and if you agree, I will take him under my own particular charge.

You know I have a few rooms set apart for such cases in my house at Brookmere.

I will take him there, and see what I can do for him." "Very kind of you, I am sure," said Dr.Emerton.

"You can afford that sort of thing--I can't.