His Other Wife: A Novel — page 87: what you’re looking at

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_ RACHEL. 79 ‘‘Well, they all went away; but I stopped at the keeper's lodge, and asked him to let me keep the key of the cemetery gate that night, so that I might return and sprinkle the chapel with disinfectant acid, and that no bad air might be shut up in it. He agreed very readily, I waited until it was late and dark, and then I hired a small light cart, and drove myself out to the cemetery, and through the carriage drive in the grounds, close up to the chapel. It was easy enough to manage. I knew you'd not wake for hours into the next day, if then.” ‘‘And you laid me on some blankets in the bottom of the cart?” ‘‘Yes, and got you home all right about midnight—a little before Amy came to report.” ‘«Then you told Red Lion to take care of me while you went away with Amy?” a ‘¢'Ves, and he always does what I tell him. The next evening, about midnight, you came to your conscious- ness; but I put you at once to sleep again—a healthy sleep this time, for I was afraid to let your poor brain work until the fumes of the poison had all vanished from it. You became very ill in spite of all my care, and lay for weeks with brain fever. I didn’t much hope to save you—much less the little one that was yet to see the light. But God took care that my. remedies should | prove effectual. That makes me know He's got something very. important for you and the child to do yet in this wicked world,” ‘ GComicbooks: (E(@) =|