With the assistance of her now converted and penitent employee, she had the unfortunate man conveyed to his room--but not until she had thoughtfully rearranged the disorder of her desk and closed the open drawers without attracting Dick Shipley's attention.

In the morning, hearing that the patient was still in the semiconscious exhaustion of his late attack, but without seeing him, she sent for Dr.Duchesne.

The doctor arrived while she was absent at the mill, where, after a careful examination of his patient, he sought her with some little excitement.
"Well ?" she said, with eager gravity.
"Well, it looks as if your wish would be gratified.

Your friend has had an epileptic fit, but the physical shock has started his mental machinery again.

He has recovered his faculties; his memory is returning: he thinks and speaks coherently; he is as sane as you and I." "And"-- said Josephine, questioning the doctor's knitted eyebrows.
"I am not yet sure whether it was the result of some shock he doesn't remember; or an irritation of the brain, which would indicate that the operation had not been successful and that there was still some physical pressure or obstruction there--in which case he would be subject to these attacks all his life." "Do you think his reason came before the fit or after ?" asked the girl, anxiously.
"I couldn't say.