The crowd round Frank made way for the doctor, who hurriedly approached, and assisted Hamilton to raise Frank and carry him to his bed.
"He's dead, he's dead!" cried the boys all round.
"How did this happen ?" asked the doctor, and without waiting for an answer he tore open the handkerchief and collar of the insensible youth, and dispatched some one immediately for a medical man.

One was sent for a smelling-bottle, another for some water, and Mrs.Wilkinson soon made her appearance with a fan, and other apparatus for restoring a fainting person.

But it was long before there were any signs of returning life.
It was a terrible time for Reginald.

It was agony to look on the motionless form, and blood-streaked countenance before him--to watch the cloud of anxiety that seemed to deepen on his master's face as each new restorative failed its accustomed virtue,--to listen to the subdued murmurs and fearful whispers, and to note the blanched faces of his school-fellows.

He stood with clasped hands, and there was a prayer in his heart that he might not be called to suffer so very deeply for this sinful expression of his temper.