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A STORY OF THE PAST.
Mrs.Jasher's influenza proved to be very mild indeed.
When Donna Inez de Gayangos and Lucy paid a visit to her on the afternoon of the day succeeding the explanations in the museum, she was certainly in bed, and explained that she had been there since the Professor's visit on the previous day.

Lucy was surprised at this, as she had left Mrs.Jasher perfectly well, and Braddock had not mentioned any ailment of the widow.

But influenza, as Mrs.Jasher observed, was very rapid in its action, and she was always susceptible to disease from the fact that in Jamaica she had suffered from malaria.

Still, she was feeling better and intended to rise from her bed on that evening, if only to lie on the couch in the pink drawing-room.