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Rh mother is running for a hot drink and a cushion. It's a kind of a sick person, but they are going to make him well right away, any one can see that! This is the best place. I'll go tell him to come lie on the pine needles in the sun and watch the sails go by. That will fix him!" "Watch sails go by," chanted Little Brother. "'At fix him! Elnora fix him, won't you?" "I don't know about that," answered Elnora. "What sort of a looking person is he, Terry?" "A beautiful white person; but my father is going to 'colour him up,' I heard him say so. He's just out of the hospital, and he is a bad person, 'cause he ran away from the doctors and made them awful angry. But father and mother are going to doctor him better. I didn't know they could make sick people well." "'Ey do anyfing!" boasted Little Brother. Before Elnora missed her, Alice, who had gone to investigate, came flying across the shadows and through the sunshine waving a paper. She thrust it into Elnora's hand. "There is a man-person—a stranger-person!" she shouted. "But he knows you! He sent you that! You are to be the doctor! He said so! Oh, do hurry! I like him heaps!" Elnora read Edith Carr's telegram to Philip Ammon and understood that he had been i11, that she had been located by Edith, who had notified him. In so doing she had acknowledged defeat. At last Philip was free. Elnora looked up with a radiant face.