I will bring out some medicine with me." The carriage drove slowly to avoid shaking, and when they approached the house Mrs.Wingfield told Dan to jump down and come to the side of the carriage.

Then she told him to run on as fast as he could ahead, and to tell her daughters not to meet them upon their arrival, and that all the servants were to be kept out of the way, except three men to carry Vincent upstairs.

The lad was consequently got up to his room without any excitement, and was soon lying on his bed with a sheet thrown lightly over him.
"That is comfortable," he said, as his mother bathed his face and hands and smoothed his hair.

"Where are the girls, mother ?" "They will come in to see you now, Vincent; but you are to keep quite quiet, you know, and not to talk." The girls stole in and said a few words, and left him alone again with Mrs.Wingfield.He did not look to them so ill as they had expected, for there was a flush of fever on his cheeks.

Dr.Mapleston arrived a little later, examined and redressed the wound, and comforted Mrs.Wingfield with the assurance that there was nothing in it likely to prove dangerous to life.
"Our trouble will be rather with the effect of the shock than with the wound itself.