mbers of mercantile men from all parts of the world, who did not accept the fever-plagued ci

an easy and natural gravitation; and the most respectable and comfortable rented rooms of which the city could boast we

ought many of them to a supreme pitch of excellence as housekeepers. In many cases money had been inherited; in other cases it had been saved up. That Latin feminine ability to hold an awkward position with impregnable serenity, and, like the yellow Mississippi, to give back no reflection from the overhanging sky, em

ring from the overhanging balcony and twirling in the breeze, that the sick wife lay. A waiting slave-girl opened the door as the two men approached it, and both of them went directly upstairs and into a larg

years old or so, tall and broad. She rose and responded to the Doctor's silent bow with that prett

health, by those who lay stress on correctness of outlines. But she had one thing that to some is better. Whether it was in the dark blue eyes that were lifted to the Doctor's with a look which changed rapidly from inquiry to confidence, or in the fine, scarcely perc

pped away from his, and turned wearily,

he young man. His long fingers moved twice or thrice softly across her brow, pushing back the thin, waving

nurse responded with a quiet look of comprehension. At the same time the Doctor disguised

ver met y

, s

is you

nob

urning her eyes, with a glimmer of feeble pleasan

and then gave a few concise directions

this, that when she gently pressed the young husband an inch or two aside, and murmured that "de do

remained at the bedside while Madame Zénobie led th

n an undertone, looking up at the quadroon, an

arge shoulders and

one of query rather than asse

but she was not going to be responsible

are the

less?-I nevva ye

ord ending in "walk," and smiled,

?" asked t

ed him gently with the tip of one finger,

siness i

stioner

ent of her eyes, and, compressing her lips, gave her hea

se," said the physician, as they

her mind that the Doctor might be considering

pay

, and the physician and he passed d

an, as he stood, prescription in

physician, "you should

e stranger's face caused the Doctor

an"-exclaimed

o late. Get that prescription

" said the

," continued the Doctor. "I

returned she

silent during the Doctor's visit, until he, thinking he read in her eyes a wish to say something to him alone, sent

e, for my husband's sake! To lose all he's lost for m

it!" said he. "Yo

kill and her endura