With a certain half irony of recollection he had selected Jim Hooker to accompany the party as a volunteer.

This done, he returned to the gallery.

The surgeon met him at the door.
"The indications of concussion are passing away," he said, "but she seems to be suffering from the exhaustion following some great nervous excitement.

You may go in--she may rally from it at any moment." With the artificial step and mysterious hush of the ordinary visitor to a sick bed, Brant entered the room.

But some instinct greater than this common expression of humanity held him suddenly in awe.