MR.

BURKHAM'S UNCERTAINTIES.
The next morning dawned gray and pale and chill, after the manner of early spring mornings, let them ripen into never such balmy days; and with the dawn Nancy Woolper came into the invalid's chamber, more wan and sickly of aspect than the morning itself.
Mrs.Halliday started from an uneasy slumber.
"What's the matter, Nancy ?" she asked with considerable alarm.

She had known the woman ever since her childhood, and she was startled this morning by some indefinable change in her manner and appearance.

The hearty old woman, whose face had been like a hard rosy apple shrivelled and wrinkled by long keeping, had now a white and ghastly look which struck terror to Georgy's breast.

She who was usually so brisk of manner and sharp of speech, had this morning a strange subdued tone and an unnatural calmness of demeanour.