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~ £3 wd le took it passively, but evident- did not in least recognize her. is eyes, which for so many had seen only the phantoms of his imagination, fixed themselves on her face, and by degrees a light of "'Bigrid I' he exclaimed, ' in a tone of such relief that tears started to her eyes. Bhe bent down and kissed him. 'I have come to take care of you. And after you have been to sl we will have a long talk,"' she ver gently. "There, let me make your pillows comfortable." "Talk," he said. 'It is so good to hear Norse once movre."' "T will talk if you will try to sleep. I will sit here and say you some of Bjornsen's songs." And, with his hand still in hers, she said, in her quieting voice, "Jeg har soght,"" and "Olaf Trygvason," and "Pringessen." This last seemed specially to please kim, and while, for the sixth time, she was repeating it, Roy, who had been watching them in~ tently, made her a little sign, and, glancing down, she saw that Frith- of had fallen asleep. No one stirred, for they all knew only too well how much depended on that sleep. For the next day or two Frithiof realized little. To the surprise and delight of all, he slept almost in- cessantly, waking only to take food, to make sure that Sigrid was with him, and to enjoy a delicious sense of ease and relief. "He is out of the wood mow," said Dr. Morris, cheerfully. 'Yon! came just in time, Miss Falck. 'But | 1 will give you one. piece of advice: | if possible stay in England and make your home with him, he'! ought not to be go much alone." "Yon fhink-that he may have] such such an attack again?' asked Sigrid, wistfully, | 'No, I don't say that at all. He has a wonderful constitution. and there is no reason why he should ever break down again. But he is more likely to get depressed if he is alone, and you will be able to prevent his life from growing too monotonous,"' So she lived through those quiet y, coming in at his usual Tin. the | morning to relieve - guard, brought her a fat envelope which he had found waiting for her in the hall, . She opened it eagerly, and made a little exclamation of disap- pointment and vexation. "Anything wrong!' he asked. %Oh,'? she said, "it seems so ri- diculous-when I had been expecting to try in Norway and even atbempt- ed a story and Sens it 16 one uf ou him which n; it does not seem 10 me pos- sible that a man can love like that twice in a life-time." a erhaps not just in that way,' | 2 said Mrs. Boniface. "And, besides,' eaid Bigrid, "what girl would care to take such love as he might now be able to give! 1 am sure nothing would in- duce me to accept any love of that kind." Now Cecil was of a wholly differ- ent type. Already love had taken possession of her, it had stolen into her 'heart almost unconsciously and had brought grave shadows in- to her quiet life, shadows cast by the sorrow of another. Sjgrid's speech troubled her for a minute or two; if one girl could epeak so, why not all girls? "It may be so," she admitted, yet with a latent consciousness that &o infinite a thing as love could not be bound by any hard and fast rules. "But I can not help it. Whether it is womtinly or not I would die to give him the least real comfort.' ' ; "Tell Harris to stop, Cecil," said Mrs. Boniface. grapes for Mr. Falck." And glad to escape from the car- riage for a minute, and glad, too, to be of use even in such a far-off way, Oecil went into the fruiterer's, r+ 1roing before long with a beauti- ful basket of grapes and flowers, CHAPTER- XIX. "Bee what I have brought you," said Bigrid. re-entering the sick- room a little laterson, Frithiof took the basket and looked, with a pleasure which a few weeks ago would have been im- possible 'to him, at the lovely fruit} and flowers. '"You have come just at the right time, for he will insist on talking all the deepest things in heaven and earth," said Roy, "and . this makes a good diversion." "They are from Mrs. Boniface. Is it not kind of her?! And do you know, Frithiof, she and Doctor Morris have been making quite a deep 3D plot; they want to transplant us ily to Rowan Tree House, and Doctor Morris thinks. the move could do you no harm now that you are getting better." His 'face lighted up with some- thing of its former expression. "How I should like never to see this hateful room again!' he ex- claimed. "'You don't know how I detest it. The old ghosts seem to haunt it still, There is nothing that ¥ can bear to look at except your piéture of Bergen, which has e "We will get some |' ve. were happy days for all' Happy to Frithiof ' beeau: strength was returning ta him Saute; with an ifop resolu as far as possible shut out membrance of Blanche; because spirit life within him was developing, and for the first. he had become conscious that i a 'reality. Happy for Oecil because her was no foolish sentimentality, mn sefish day-dream, but a noble'le which taught her more th thing else could possibly have Happiest of all perhaps for because his love story was fu bright hope--a hope. that each « grew fuller and clearer. io. "Robin," said Mrs. Boniface evening to her husband. "I # Bigrid Falck is one of the sw8 girls I ever saw." 3 "So thinks some one else i not. much mistaken,"' he rep! "Then, you, too, have noti 1 i} ! cond SOF A but could not feel sure. , IRTIOLES y bin, T wonder if hie has any chan he "Holle on A She would make him such ped 8. L little wife." icles of sesociation upon. 'How can. we tell that ablished these banks not left her heart in Norwa pital . x "TI do mot think so," 'ss ; fap ation Boniface. . "Ner 1 feel supe a can't be, from the way in whieh speaks of her life there. is any rival to be feared it iof. 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