CHAPTER XXXIV.
DOUBTFUL INFORMATION.
The early days of the new year brought little change in John Saltram's condition.

Mr.Mew, and the physician who saw him once in every three days, seemed perhaps a shade more hopeful than they had been, but would express no decided opinion when Gilbert pressed them with close questioning.

The struggle was still going on--the issue still doubtful.
"If we could keep the mind at rest," said the physician, "we should have every chance of doing better; but this constant restlessness, this hyper-activity of the brain, of which you and Mr.Mew tell me, must needs make a perpetual demand upon the patient's physical powers.

The waste is always going on.

We cannot look for recovery until we obtain more repose." Several weeks had passed since the beginning of John Saltram's illness, and there were no tidings from Mr.Medler.Every day Gilbert had expected some communication from that practitioner, only to be disappointed.