Then for the first time he remembered that he had been due at that time about a matter of a sick parishioner.

He opened the front door hurriedly, and stated the case, and the two men carried the little unconscious creature upstairs.

Then Von Rosen came down, leaving the doctor and Martha with her.

He waited in the study, listening to the sounds overhead, waiting impatiently for the doctor's return, which was not for half an hour or more.

In the meantime Martha came downstairs on some errand to the kitchen.