Don't send me away.

Let me stay here and die; it won't be long, and this pillow is so nice." She was wandering again, and satisfied that her surmises were correct, Mrs.Dobson lifted her gently up, and to the great surprise of Hannah, who had returned with the ice, began removing the heavy dress and the skirts so much in the way.
"Bring some of Mrs.Markham's night-clothes, and ask me no questions," she said to the astonished girl, who silently obeyed her, and then assisted while Ethelyn was arrayed in Melinda's night-gown and made more comfortable and easy than she could be in her own tight-fitting dress.
"Take this to the telegraph office," was Mrs.Dobson's next order, after she had been a few moments in the library, and Hannah obeyed, reading as she ran: "DAVENPORT, August--.
"To MRS.

JAMES MARKHAM, Olney: "There's a strange woman sick here.

Please come home.

"ELINOR DOBSON." The way was open for the dispatch, and in less than half an hour the operator at Olney was writing out the message which would take Melinda back to Davenport as fast as steam could carry her..