young man's name. But that was all they could discover regarding
him.

"We'll have to wait until he can tell us himself," said Miss Winwood
later to the doctor.

"We'll have to wait a long time," said he.



CHAPTER IX

THE London physician arrived, sat up with Paul most of the night,
and went away the next morning saying that he was a dead man. Dr.
Fuller, however, advanced the uncontrovertible opinion that a man
was not dead till he died; and Paul was not dead yet. As a matter of
fact, Paul did not die. If he had done so, there would have been an
end of him and this history would never have been written. He lay
for many days at the gates of Death, and Miss Winwood, terribly
fearful lest they should open and the mysterious, unconscious shape
of beauty and youth should pass through, had all the trouble
promised her by the doctor. But the gates remained shut. When Paul
took a turn for the better, the London physician came down again and
declared that he was living in defiance of all the laws of
pathology, and with a graceful compliment left the case in the hands
of Dr. Fuller. When his life was out of danger, Dr. Fuller
attributed the miracle to the nurses; Ursula Winwood attributed it
to Dr. Fuller; the London physician to Paul's superb constitution;
and Paul himself, perhaps the most wisely, to the pleasant-faced,
masterful lady who had concentrated on his illness all the resources