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and spread my cambric handkerchief In
a double fold between her cheek and the
rough linen--too rough for soft check
like hers.
Lie quite STILL" | said. DO not stir,
but so to sleep as fast as you can"
Then went out to Tardif.
"The arm Is set" said. "and now she
must get some sleep. There Is not the
least danger, only we will keep the house
as quiet as possible"
Il must so and bring in the boat" no
replied, bestirring himself as II some spell
was at an end. "There will be storm
tonight, and should sleep the sounder
II she was safe ashore"
The feeble light entering by the door,
which left open, showed me the old
woman comfortably asleep ln her chair,
but not so the girl. had told her when
laid her down that she must liz quite
still, and she was obeying me implicitly.
Her cheek still rested upon my hand
kerchief and the broken arm remained
undisturbed upon the pillow which had
placed under It. But her eyes were wide
open and shining In the dimness. and |
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cessantly, though soundlessly.
The gale that Tardif had foretold came
with great violence about the middle OF
the night The wind howled up the long,
narrow ravine like pack of wolves:
mighty storms OF hail and rain beat in
torrents against the windows, and the
sea lifted up its voice with unmistakable
energy. Now and again a stronger gust
than the others appeared to threaten to
carry off the thatched roof bodily, and
leave us exposed to the tempest with
only the thick stone walls about us; and
the latch of the outer door ratified as II
some one was striving to enter.
The westerly gale, rising every few
hours into squall, gave me no chance
OF leaving Sark the next day, nor fof
some days afterwards; but was not al
all put out by my captivity. All my In
terests--my whole being In fact-was alb.
sorbed in the care of this girl, stranger
as she was. thought and moved, lived
and breathed, only to fight step by ster
against delirium and death.
There seemed to me to be no possibility
Of aid. The stormy waters which beat
against that little rock in the sea came
swelling and rolling in from the vast
plain Of the Atlantic and broke In tenn.
pestuous surf against the island. Tar
dif himself was kept d prisoner In the
house, except when he went to look after
his live stock, No doubt 1t would have
been practicable for me to get as far a.
the hotel, but to what good? It would
be quite deserted, for there were no Wis
itors to Sark at this season. was en-
tirely engrossed in my patient, and
learned for the first time what their tash
is who hour after hour watch the pro
gress Of disease In the person of one deal
to them.
On the Tuesday afternoon, IN tenn
porary iull Of the hail and wind, | start
ed of on walk across the island. Th,
wind was still blowing from the south
west, and filing all the narrow sea be
tween us and Guernsey with boiling
surge. Very angry looked the masses Of
foam whirling about the sunken reefs
and very ominous the low-lying, hare
blocks Of clouds all along the horizon.
strolled as far as the Coupee, that giddy
pathway between Great and Little Sark
! where one can see the seething Of ths
waves at the feet of the cliffs on bott
sides three hundred feet below one Some
thing like panic seized me- Ny nerve,