Do you understand?
You are wrong!" Nell's eyes quickened with a puzzled, questioning doubt.

The minister's magnetic, penetrating voice had pierced her dulled brain.
"See, I have brought you Jim!" Heckewelder stepped aside as Jim fell on his knees by the bed.

He took her cold hands in his and bent over her.

For the moment his voice failed.
The doubt in Nell's eyes changed to a wondrous gladness.

It was like the rekindling of a smoldering fire.
"Jim ?" she whispered.
"Yes, Nellie, it's Jim alive and well.