Early in the morning--before his uncle was astir--he would betake himself to Kennedy Square; ascertain from Pawson whether his uncle's rooms were still unoccupied, and if such were the case--and St.George be unable to walk--would pick him up bodily, wrap him in blankets, carry him in his own arms downstairs, place him in a carriage, and drive him to his former home where he would again pick him up and lay him in his own bed: This would be better than a hundred doctors--he had tried it himself when he was down with fever and knew.

Aunt Jemima was to go ahead and see that these preparations were carried out.

Should Alec be able to bring his mother to Kennedy Square in the morning, as he had instructed him to do, then there would indeed be somebody on hand who could nurse him even better than Jemima; should his mother not be there, Jemima would take her place.

Nothing of all this, he charged her, was to be told St.George until the hour of departure.

To dwell upon the intended move might overexcite him.