His Other Wife: A Novel — page 81: what you’re looking at

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THE INDIAN’S PATIENT. 73 ‘* Suppose you let me employ you fora few weeks. I require a servant now to wait upon one of my patients, who boards with me, and you understand nursing. I’d give you fair wages.” ‘‘Tank you, boss. I would’nt hab no ‘jections to such ‘rangement till I look round me a bit. Now dat e's gone off, dis place suits me as well as any.” | ‘Very well; you may come with me at once, and take my place by the patient. I need sleep.” He led the way through the back room of the shop to a somewhat more commodious one above.it, which they reached by means of a narrow stairway inside of the lower room. A dim taper light burned in the wide, open fire-place, and on a low cot bed in a corner of the decently but poorly furnished chamber, a woman lay soundly asleep. The mulattress crept softly to the bedside, and, witha low cry of horror, fell to the floor flat on her face. - The woman in the bed was Rachel Croft, sleeping as. sweetly as a young child. Eomichoo “Si: (E(@)