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 R0UW VOORHAAS is decidedly better to-day, Juffrouw Jacqueline,” remarked Dr. Pieter de Witt as he left  the bedside of the sick woman. “She is really coming out of this illness very well,  thanks to thy careful nursing and our good  Jan’s assistance.”

“Is it so indeed!” answered Jacqueline listlessly, striving to force herself to some  show of enthusiasm. “Then am I right glad, for I have done my best, and thou hast been  devotion itself. Dr. de Witt. Oh! if only—” She turned away her head to hide the tears  that would come, and a sob stopped her  further utterance. The good doctor understood, and busied himself over his patient till the girl had regained her self-control.