No--that is--No, my boy, I'm afraid not." "Is she very bad, Father--like the Dean's wife when she had fever ?" His father didn't answer.

He walked to the end of the room, then turned suddenly as though he had seen something there that terrified him, and hurried from the room.
Jeremy, suddenly left alone, had a desperate impulse to scream that someone must come, that he was frightened, that something horrible was in the house.

He stood up, staring at the closed door, his face white, his eyes large and full of fear.

Then he flung himself down by Hamlet and, taking him by the neck, whispered: "I'm frightened! I'm frightened! Bark or something!...

There's someone here!" III Next morning Mrs.Cole was still alive.