ied at once,
saying what a real pleasure it would be if he would stay with us.
And so he came, and about a fortnight before the time, of which we
were all the more glad. He looked the very picture of health on his
arrival, and was in excellent spirits; many remarked how very well
and strong he looked.

'I remember well the day he arrived, it was a Saturday afternoon.
I suggested that he should have some dinner at once, but,
thoughtful-like, as your father always was, he said, "No, thank
you, I have already had all I want; I shall not require anything
more till your next ordinary meal."

'By-and-by we showed him his room, "whose windows opened to the
sun-rising." We had made it as pretty and comfortable as we could,
and brightened it with freshly cut flowers. The next day I noticed
he had taken the tablecloth off his writing-table, and in the
evening he handed it to me, saying, if I remember rightly, "Here,
mademoiselle, is your tablecloth. I am afraid of inking it. You had
better put it away." I was grieved, and begged he would use, and
ink it, too, for the matter of that; but it was no use, not on any
account would he spoil my cloth, and therefore would not use it.

'He seemed very happy with us, and I think thoroughly appreciated
the homelikeness of his surroundings after his lonely life in
Mongolia, and the dismal rooms of a Chinese inn, and it was such a
pleasure to minister to his comforts in every possible way we could
think of.

'He used to spend his days, as a rule, in the following way:--

'After breakfast he would write letters. At 10.45, after a cup of
cocoa, he would go over to the hospital, returning at 1 o'clock to
dinner. This over, he would go back with my brother to see the
in-patients. At 4.30 we would all have tea together, after which he
would make calls, or go for a walk, or talk over committee matters
with Mr. Lees or Mr. Bryson. Many evenings he would be invited out,
or would be at a meeting, or would spend it quietly at home; and so
the time went by till meetings began. Then the whole day till 4
P.M. was spent in committee, and at six Mr. Gilmour had a
Bible-class for an hour with the Chinese preachers who had come to
attend some of the meetings.

'These were nearly over when your father began to complain of