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 "Nothing else as distressing as this has occurred," said Mr. Stone.

"I am glad of it, then," said the sufferer, "and think I will go to sleep again."

There was a pause, during which the young husband and wife glanced at each other; then Susan drew very near and whispered:

"If anything trying does occur, mother, would you want us to tell it to you, weak as you are now?"

The sick woman opened her eyes, and regarded her daughter earnestly.

"What makes you ask that?" she questioned.

"What you have just been saying helped to put it into my head, I presume; but you need not answer the question, or think more of it, if it troubles you."

"If anything happens to my husband or family, I shall want to know it," the sick woman said, decidedly. "It would be better for me to know the exact truth than to suffer from uncer-