We have telegrams saying that surgeons are coming from Charleston and many other places, so I can very well be spared." When the doctor returned in the evening, he found, as he had anticipated, that Vincent was in a high state of fever.

This continued four or five days, and then gradually passed off; and he woke up one morning perfectly conscious.

His mother was sitting on a chair at the bedside.
"What is the time, mother ?" he asked.

"Have I been asleep long ?" "Some time, dear," she answered gently; "but you must not talk.

You are to take this draught and go off to sleep again; when you wake you may ask any questions you like." She lifted the lad's head, gave him the draught and some cold tea, then darkened the room, and in a few minutes he was asleep again..