THE London physician arrived, sat up with Paul most of the night, and went away the next morning saying that he was a dead man.

Dr.Fuller, however, advanced the uncontrovertible opinion that a man was not dead till he died; and Paul was not dead yet.

As a matter of fact, Paul did not die.

If he had done so, there would have been an end of him and this history would never have been written.

He lay for many days at the gates of Death, and Miss Winwood, terribly fearful lest they should open and the mysterious, unconscious shape of beauty and youth should pass through, had all the trouble promised her by the doctor.