Stooping over her bed, he felt a pair of slender arms
round his neck and heard her voice whispering in his ear:
"Thorny, I just wanted you to know that I think Mrs. Churchill is the
dearest person I ever saw, and I'm going to sleep better to-night than I
have for weeks."
"Thank God for that!" thought Lee, and kissed the thin cheek of the girl
with brotherly fervor.
Down-stairs in the hall a few minutes later Andrew Churchill advanced to
meet his wife, as she returned to him after ministering to Evelyn Lee's
wants.
"Do you know," said he, looking straight down into her eyes as she came
up to him, "those words of Stevenson's--though they always fit you--seem
particularly applicable to you to-night?
"Steel-true and blade-straight
The great artificer
Made my mate.'"
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CHAPTER IV
"I think," said Doctor Churchill, leaning back in his office chair, with
a mingling of the professional and the friendly in his air, "that we can
get at the bottom of Evelyn's troubles without very much difficulty." He
had just sent Evelyn back to Charlotte, after an hour in the office,
during which he had subjected her to a minute and painstaking
examination into the cause of her ill health.
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