The trouble is that he resists the instant he feels the magnetic current, which makes con-centrating very difficult and takes so much of the imponderable quality out of one--" "Emma! Emma!" cried Anne.

"For mercy sake come up and get a breath of air.

You will drown if you stay down another second." Nora laughed heartily.
In the meantime Grace and Elfreda were leaning over the bed watching the doctor's diagnosis.

Elfreda told him what had been done for the two children, naming the few home remedies that she had been able to find and administer to them.
"Good, Miss Lizzie might have been dead by this time if you had not done what you did.

Susie is not in quite such bad shape." "What is the matter with them ?" questioned Grace.
"Scarlet fever--both of them," was the terse answer.