Kate and Eeny met them in the hall, the latter kissing both with effusion, and Kate only shaking hands, with a pale and anxious countenance.
Mrs.Grace went upstairs with Eeny, to change her travelling costume, and Captain Danton was left standing in the hall with his eldest daughter.
"What is it, my dear ?" he asked; "what has gone wrong ?" "Something very serious, I am afraid, papa.

Harry is ill." "Ill! How ?--when ?--what is the matter with him ?" "The fever," Kate said, in a whisper.

"No one in the house knows it yet but Ogden.

He was taken ill night before last, but I knew nothing of it till yesterday.

I sat up with him last night, and did what I could, but I fear he is getting worse.