Where we cannot get out, no one can get in," he added, as if answering her thoughts.

"I am afraid that you won't see your brother to-morrow morning.

But I'll reconnoitre as soon as I can do so without torturing HIM," he said, looking anxiously at the helpless man; "he's got about his share of pain, I reckon, and the first thing is to get him easier." It was the longest speech he had made to her; it was the first time he had fairly looked her in the face.

His shy restlessness had suddenly given way to dogged resignation, less abstracted, but scarcely more flattering to his entertainers.

Lifting his companion gently in his arms, as if he had been a child, he reascended the staircase, Mrs.Scott and the hastily-summoned Molly following with overflowing solicitude.