He won't leave me now, not for a bit--till I'm happier; but he says it's best he should go, that he has a reason for going.

Ah, well; he'll settle down some time, when he's got over this." It might have been three weeks later when we heard that Richard Dawson had taken the small-pox and was lying ill at the Cottage.

The illness was complicated, it was feared, by his having driven in the night to the small-pox hospital and asked to be taken in there, but there had been a recrudescence of the plague, and the place was crowded to the doors.

Dr.
Molyneux was working there like ten men, and it was his idea to have Richard Dawson taken to the Cottage, which was much nearer than Damerstown.

We heard that the night journey, which was like to cost him his life, had been undertaken when he found the illness coming on, to prevent as much as might be the danger of infection to the large household at Damerstown.