Geoffrey's Victory by Mrs Georgie Sheldon — page 314: what you’re looking at

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310 PEACE AT LAST. and said, in order to conceal the fact, she had been obliged to give away her child—that Mr. Huntress was the man who adopted her.”’ Colonel Mapleson then went on to explain more at Icngth something of the occurrences of the evening, but he was inter- rupted in the midst of his recital by Everet throwing himself prostrate upon the floor, while a heart-rending groau burst froin him as he feil. When they raised him he was unconscious, and a small streain of blood was trickling from his mouth. He was carried at once to his room, a servant was im mediately dispatched for a doctor, while his anxious friends used what remedies there were at hand for his relief. When the physician arrived he said his patient had evidently been sufferiag from a severe cold for several days, and that this, with weariness of body and a sudden shock of some kind, had brought on the hemorrhage, while there were also some indica- tions of a brain trouble, and a severe illness would doubtless follow. Mr. Huntress and Geoffrey proposed going away early the next morning, but Colonel Mapieson, who seemed greatly un- nerved by the excitement of the previous eVening, begged them to remain for a few days at least, as he could not bear to give up Geoffrey again so soon after being reunited to him. They had not the heart to leave him in his trouble after thag, and consented to remain long enough to learn what the prospect of Everet’s recovery wouid be. But he grew steadily worse, and raved in the wildest delirium, recognizing no one, although there was no return of the hemorr- hage. At the end of four days Mr. Huntress decided that he must go home, but Geoffrey concluded that it was his duty to remain with his father until the crisis in Everet’s illness should be passed, for Colonel Mapleson seemed to lean upon and to experience much comfort from hig presence. He proved of the greatest assistance in the sick-room, where he attended Everet most faithfully, and endeared himself to the whole household by his gentleness and courteous bearing. At the end of three weeks the fever turned, and Everet was prononneed out of danger of any further brain trouble, alihough it would be a long time before he would fully recover from the weakness of his lungs. Geoffrey withdrew himself immediately from the sick-room as soon as the patient recovered consciousness, realizing that his presence might be annoving to Everet, and retard his conva- lescence; althcugh he remained at Vue de l’Kau for another week, at the earnest request of both Colonel and Mrs. Maple- son. Then he felt that he could not stay longer away from Gladvs, snd he returned to Brooklyn, taking with bim the knowledge comiclooolks co