A telegram would bring them any tidings as quickly in the one place as the other.

"I am not asking you to go far, remember," he added.

"You will be within an hour's journey of London, and the doctors declare this change is indispensable to your recovery.

You have told us what a horror you have of these rooms." "Yes; I doubt if any one but a sick man can understand his loathing of the scene of his illness.

That room in there is filled with the shadows that haunted me in all those miserable nights--when the fever was at its worst, and I lived amidst a crowd of phantoms.