What has happened to him?
Is he in prison too ?" "No, he is not in prison, Jeanne," Harry said, "but he is very ill." And he related the whole circumstances of Victor's fever.
"I blamed myself awfully at first for having hit him so hard, as you may suppose, Jeanne; but the doctor says he thinks it made no difference, and that Victor's delirium is due to the mental shock and not in any way to the blow on the head.

Still I should not like your sister to know it.

I am very glad you have guessed the truth, for it is a comfort to talk things over with you." "Poor Marie!" Jeanne said softly.

"It is well she never knew about it.

The thought he had got safely away kept her up.