and child.

"Doctor!" said a low, sweet voice, "Doctor?" My heart leaped within
me, as I turned. Where was the highly organized one of all my
patients, who had baffled death for love of me? Who had the
clairvoyance or clairaudience, or the wonderful tip in the scale of
health and disease, which causes such phenomena?

With hungry eyes I gazed from cot to cot. No answering gaze returned
to me. Craving their recognition more sorely than they had ever, in
the old life, craved mine, in such need of their sympathy as never had
the weakest of the whole of them for mine, I scanned them all. No--no.
There was not a patient in the ward who knew me. No.

Stung with the disappointment, I sank into a chair beside the weeping
woman's bed, and bowed my face upon my hands. At this instant I was
touched upon the shoulder.

"Doctor! Why, Doctor!" said the voice again.

I sprang and caught the speaker by the hands. It was Mrs. Faith. She
stood beside me, sweet and smiling.

"The carriage overturned," she said in her quiet way, "I was badly
hurt. I only died an hour ago. I started out at once to find you. I
want you to see Charley. Charley's still alive. Those doctors don't
understand Charley. There's nobody I'd trust him to but you. You can
save him. Come! You can't think how he asked for you, and cried for
you.... I thought I should find you at the hospital. Come quickly,
Doctor! Come!"

CHAPTER XI.

Some homesick traveller in a foreign land, where he is known of none
and can neither speak nor understand the language of the country; taken
ill, let us say, at a remote inn, his strength and credit gone, and he,
in pain and fever, hears, one blessed day, the voice of an old friend
in the court below. Such a man may think he has--but I doubt if he
have--some crude conception of the state of feeling in which I found
myself, when recognized in this touching manner by my old patient.

My emotion was so great that I could not conceal it; and she, in her
own quick and delicate way, perceiving this almost before I did myself,
made as if she saw it not, and lightly adding:

"Hurry, Doctor! I will go before you. Let us lose no time!" led me at
once out of the hospital and rapidly away.

In an incredibly, almost confusingly short space of time, we reached
her house; this was done by some method of locomotion not hitherto
experienced by me, and which I should, at that time, have found it
difficult to des