Can I see this young person ?" The matron came nearer to Byles Gridley, and said: "This person is a young woman disguised as a boy.

She was rescued by my nephew at the risk of his life, and she has been delirious ever since she has recovered her consciousness.

She was almost too far gone to be resuscitated, but Clement put his mouth to hers and kept her breathing until her own breath returned and she gradually came to." "Is she violent in her delirium ?" "Not now.

No; she is quiet enough, but wandering,--wants to know where she is, and whose the strange faces are,--mine and my husband's,--that 's Dr.Lindsay,--and one of my daughters, who has watched with her." "If that is so, I think I had better see her.

If she is the person I suspect her to be, she will know me; and a familiar face may bring back her recollections and put a stop to her wanderings.