I'm coming over to seal it up." Annie Squires meantime had hastened back to discuss these matters with her patient in the hospital room.

It only added more to the nervous strain that already tormented Mary Gage.
"Annie, I'm scared!" she whispered.

"Oh! if I could only take care of myself.

Tell me, Annie--I'll get well, won't I ?" "Sure thing, Kid--it's a cinch." "Where is he ?" Mary demanded after some hesitation.
"Who?
Him ?" Annie employed her usual fashion of indicating the identity of Sim Gage.
"No, I mean Doctor Barnes." "He'll be going down below pretty soon.

He don't know anything more than I do about what that fool stuff in the letter means." "But say," she added after a time, "I been kind of looking around in desks and places, you know--I have to red things up--and I run across another thing, some more writing." "You mustn't do these things, Annie! It may be private." "Oh, no, it ain't.