"And you may depend on it, Doctor," said Agnes, "that it will never
fail when properly and intelligently carried out."

As he turned to leave, the physician said:

"Miss Arnold, please stay here until I send you a note or a messenger,
which I will do within an hour or an hour and a half."




A STRANGE INCIDENT.


In less than the specified time a man came back from the doctor to
inform Miss Arnold that her services were needed in a house about two
squares away from there, and that he would show her the place. Her
little trunk was already packed, her shawl and hat donned, when the
messenger arrived. But she found it very difficult to get away from
the Burtons. These poor, grateful people could not bear to part with
her whom they almost worshipped as their preserver. Children and
mother pleaded almost with anguish for her to stay with them.

"I would like to remain, Mrs. Burton," replied Agnes, "but there are
hundreds being stricken down every hour around us, who have no one to
wait upon them, and who may perish before help can reach them. You and
these darlings are now comparatively safe, while others just taken are
in deadly peril."