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VEXED WITH A DEVIL.
It was necessary at once to summon a physician to advise as to the treatment of Myrtle, who had received a shock, bodily and mental, not lightly to be got rid of, and very probably to be followed by serious and varied disturbances.

Her very tranquillity was suspicious, for there must be something of exhaustion in it, and the reaction must come sooner or later.
Old Dr.Lemuel Hurlbut, at the age of ninety-two, very deaf, very nearly blind, very feeble, liable to odd lapses of memory, was yet a wise counsellor in doubtful and difficult cases, and on rare occasions was still called upon to exercise his ancient skill.

Here was a case in which a few words from him might soothe the patient and give confidence to all who were interested in her.

Miss Silence Withers went herself to see him.
"Miss Withers, father, wants to talk with you about her niece, Miss Hazard," said Dr.Fordyce Hurlbut.
"Miss Withers, Miss Withers ?--Oh, Silence Withers,--lives up at The Poplars.