evidently has for yourself at least a powerful
sentiment of something stronger than mere friendly affection, to leave
the other young lady and come hither into the midst of such a deadly
peril as Yellow Fever. He has found out the deception, and has, I
suppose, come like a man, to tell you so and ask your forgiveness."

"That must be it, Doctor, that must be it," replied Agnes with much
warmth, "that's his disposition, I know. He has a noble disposition."

After a short further conversation the physician left, with the same
request as before, for Agnes to remain until he sent her a message
where to go next.

This was not long delayed, as in about half an hour or so a message
came for her to go to a house a few squares away, where a whole family
had just been taken down with the disorder.

Bidding her two patients farewell, Agnes hastened away to the new
scene of duty.

AN UNEXPECTED PATIENT.

The good and beautiful girl, upon arriving at the stricken home, at
once set herself to the heavy task she was called on to perform, with
cheerful alacrity; but it was the worst case she had yet had. Indeed,
it would have been utterly impossible for her to get through, but for
the fact that there was an old negress employed by the family, and
who, having had the fever last year, was not afraid of it.

Silver, odd as it may seem, was the name of this negress, and she
proved herself to be quite as sterling as her name implied. She was
also quite intelligent, and carried out all of Miss Arnold's
directions to the letter.

Yet, for all this, one of the patients, a little girl of six years,
died. Agnes was exceedingly pained to lose the little darling; but the
wonder was that it lived and stood the attack of the fever as long as
it did, for it had been already suffering several days before with an
acute summer complaint.

The rest of the family all recovered, and Miss Arnold received their
most grateful thanks. Truly they hardly knew what method to take to
show her how grateful they really were. They were pretty well off in
worldly matters, but their kind Angel Agnes was twice as wealthy as
they, so that neither money nor anything which money could buy was of
any use to her.

"I will tell you what you may do to express your gratitude for what
little good I have, under the blessing of God, been able to render
you. Help your poorer neighbors immediately around you here. There
are scores and scores of families who are