Out of her sphere - University Library

212 OUT OF HER SPHERE.
patients, who were already filling the doc-
tor's ante-room. Mr. Harben knew his
name—remembered him too, having met
him at Beechside—and accosted him at
once as an acquaintance.
Temple Masters declined the proffered
breakfast, and dashed, at once into the
subject which had brought him there,
—
greatly to the doctor's satisfaction,—with
a room full of patients to dispose of before
he started on his morning round, he had
no time to waste on mere ceremony. " I
want to ask you how Mr. Thornton really
is," said Temple, " and whether or not he
is aware of his wife's disappearance."
" In answer to the first question, I begin
to have some faint hopes of him. As to
the next, I should say that he knows no-
thing of his wife's death. He has been in
no state to have the intelligence communi-
cated to him."
''I said disappearance, not death, Mr.