at all. One side seems to be quite paralyzed."

"We have an ambulance waiting," said Calhoun. "As soon as the crowd is out
of the way it shall be brought close to the platform of this car and we
will lift her into it."

Greetings were exchanged while they waited.

"Where is Virginia?" asked Mr. Dinsmore.

"She preferred to remain behind," replied Mrs. Allison in a low-toned
aside, "and as she would have been of no use whatever, we did not urge her
to come."

"It is just as well," was Mr. Dinsmore's comment.

Very tenderly and carefully the poor invalid was lifted and placed in the
ambulance by her sons and brothers. The former accompanied her in it,
while the latter, with Mrs. Allison, entered the Roselands family
carriage, and drove thither considerably in advance of the more slowly
moving ambulance.

"Has Virginia made a really good match?" Mr. Dinsmore asked, addressing
his sister Adelaide.

"Good! it could hardly be worse!" she exclaimed. "Would you have believed
it? we found them in a tenement-house, living most wretchedly."

"Is it possible! He was not wealthy then? Or has he lost his means since
the marriage?"