Part 73

In the music room Dr. Garnet had just given Lucille and Hastings a favourable report on Berne Webster's condition.

"I should so like to tell him," she said, her glance entreating; "if you'll let me! Wouldn't he get well much faster if he knew it--knew the suspense was all over--that neither he nor father's suspected any more?"

"I think," the doctor gave his opinion with exaggerated deliberation, "it might--in fact, it really will be his best medicine."

She thanked him, stars swimming in her eyes.