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54 OUT OF HER SPHERE.
and cut it. He could hardly have fallen,
for his clothes, as you see, sir, don't look
as if that had been the case."
Mr. Harben just glanced at the garments
to which Clare pointed. '' No—they do n't
look as if he'd had a fall. I dare say it was
as you say. Well, I'll leave him in your
hands now. I'll send him in something in
an hour or two, and look in again in the
evening. We must both do our best, but
we've a tough job before us, I can tell you.
This has been coming on for months. He
was about much too soon after that last
attack, but he wouldn't be guided."
Clare opened the bed-room door for the
doctor, with her usual civility, and rang
the bell for Deb to show him out of the
house ; and Mr. Harben went away, tho-
roughly satisfied with one thing, and that
was, that, if he had searched Eastshire
through, he could not have found a better
nurse for his patient.