If she should be decidedly worse, send for me toward evening." After the doctor went away, Mrs.Gaston gave the medicine he had left, as directed, and then forced herself from the bedside, and resumed her work.

By the time the button-holes of the garment she was engaged upon were all completed, and the back and shoulder seams sewed up, it was time to see about something for dinner.

She put aside the jacket, and went to the bed.

Ella lay as if asleep.

Her face was flushed, and her skin dry and hot.