I have so often known doctors to be wrong." They walked on together in silence twenty yards or more.

Then he added as though speaking to himself: "When we reach the top of Gunter's Hill perhaps we shall learn.

We can see her window from there, and if she had passed away I bade them pull the blind down; if she was about the same, to pull it half down, and if she were really better, to leave it quite up.

I have done that for two nights now, so that I might have a little time to prepare myself.

It is a good plan, though very trying to a father's heart.