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74 is much in having absolutely no fear of this contagion, and I see thou hast none. With thy help we may perhaps save our old friend  and neighbor.” Together they labored over  the old man, and before he left, the doctor  expressed his amazed approval of the skill  and knowledge exhibited by this fair slip of  a girl in tending and administering to the  sick. Beyond this too, something in her manner, her look and her speech indefinably  recalled to him old recollections.

“Thou dost constantly put me in mind of some one,” he remarked finally. “Hadst thou ever any relation who was a physician? What is thy father?”

“I have no father,” answered the girl with the reticence she had learned to exhibit  through Vrouw Voorhaas’s teaching. “He is long since dead.”

“But what is thy last name?” persisted the good doctor.

“Coovenden,” replied Jacqueline with the