e when we met at the hospital.
I regret to say, that the circumstances under which I have obtained
information of her residence, are of the most melancholy nature.

"The plan which I arranged for discovering her abode, in accordance with
your brother's suggestion, proved useless. The young woman never came to
the hospital a second time. Her address was given to me this morning, by
Turner himself; who begged that I would visit her professionally, as he
had no confidence in the medical man who was then in attendance on
her. Many circumstances combined to make my compliance with his request
anything but easy or desirable; but knowing that you--or your brother
I ought, perhaps, rather to say--were interested in the young woman,
I determined to take the very earliest opportunity of seeing her, and
consulting with her medical attendant. I could not get to her till late
in the afternoon. When I arrived, I found her suffering from one of the
worst attacks of Typhus I ever remember to have seen; and I think it
my duty to state candidly, that I believe her life to be in imminent
danger. At the same time, it is right to inform you that the gentleman
in attendance on her does not share my opinion: he still thinks there is
a good chance of saving her.

"There can be no doubt whatever, that she was infected with Typhus
at the hospital. You may remember my telling you, how her agitation
appeared to have deprived her of self-possession, when she entered the
ward; and how she ran to the wrong bed, before the nurse could stop her.
The man whom she thus mistook for Turner, was suffering from fever which
had not then specifically declared itself; but which did so declare
itself, as a Typhus fever, on the morning when you and your brother came
to the hospital. This man's disorder must have been infectious when the
young woman stooped down close over him, under the impression that he
was the person she had come to see. Although she started back at once,
on discovering her mistake, she had breathed the infection into her
system--her mental agitation at the time, accompanied (as I have since
understood) by some physical weakness, rendering her specially liable to
the danger to which she had accidentally exposed herself.

"Since the first symptoms of her disease appeared, on Saturday last, I
cannot find that any error has been committed in the medical treatment,
as reported to me. I remained some time by her bedside to-day, observing
her. The