About three o'clock this morning Master Richard Dawson brought him back in that quare carriage of his that brought you home last night, Miss Bawn.

Tom's mortal bad this mornin'.
'Tis pretty sure Master Richard'll get the disease for he lifted Tom in his arms.

I wonder what for at all was he driving round the country that hour of the night ?" "No matter what he was driving for, he was there to good purpose," said my godmother.
"True for you, Miss Mary," Neil responded placidly.
And I, too, I wondered how it was that Richard Dawson had been abroad at such an hour of the night.

But I did not wait to think of that.

I was proud and glad of the thing he had done, and I remembered how I had said to him that he was brave and how pleased he had been..