Chapter 41

The manner in which the others in the house took the news of the recovery was very different, and Mrs. Grant wept with emotion and then hastened to see if she could do anything personally to prepare the house for the 'Master', as she always called him. The nurse who was denied an interesting case lowered her face, but the disappointment was temporary. And she rejoiced, because the problem was over, and was ready to come to the patient at the moment she wanted; But in the meantime, she busily packed her suitcase, and took Sergeant Dow into the office, so that we might be alone when she told him the news which surprised him, and then restrained himself when she told him the manner of getting up, and I surprised myself at his first words:

How did he explain the first attack? He was unconscious when the second attack happened.

Up to that moment the nature of the attack, which was the reason for my coming home, did not occur to me, except when I simply recounted the various e