His Other Wife: A Novel — page 74: what you’re looking at

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66 THE INDIAN’S PATIENT. ‘‘T don’t think you have any need to apprehend danger ; yet, as you say, a large family must be considered, sir. Just give me a wrench to manage the screws with, and ['ll make my examination without assistance. Yet, as you send me there alone, I suppose you'd as well not mention the fact to the husband or friends; it could do no special good, and would only harrow their feelings. © Moreover, you might be charged with neglect of duty in sending me alone.” 4 ‘Rest assured I'll say nothing about the matter, sir.” ‘Possibly it might be as well for you to stand guard at the gate there, to see that no one comes near the chapel till I return.”” — ‘‘TIt would be a good plan, though at this hour there isn't likely to be any one about the grounds. No harm to be careful, anyway.” While the officer of the health commission took his way, through the fading evening, to the little edifice at the further extremity of the burial grounds, the keeper passed in an opposite direction to guard the gate-way from intruders. “It was not yet quite time to lock them for the night. : Half an hour elapsed before the health officer was seen emerging from the chapel. He walked first to the newly- made grave, which waited to receive the remains of the poor lady who had died so suddenly the previous night, then came forward at a slow pace to join tbe keeper at the gate. Eomicbooks.: co 3