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 then she recoiled from the thought. Hernando's troubles stirred the smouldering fires anew, and later from her experience among suffering humanity at the training school, where the physicians and surgeons, and in fact the entire hospital staff, were decidedly unorthodox, she was obliged to say when asked her belief, "I don't know." To try to do right and let the future take care of itself became her creed and she accepted it, knowing no better.

Two o'clock, Dr. Brinton's office hour, came at last and, in a flutter of excitement, Eletheer hurried through the busy streets toward his office. She had not long to wait, for, though the reception-room was full, on receiving her card Dr. Brinton ushered her into his private office where who should advance to meet her but Dr. Herschel. Evidently the appointment was with him for Dr. Brinton had disappeared.

"What can Dr. Herschel want of me!" Eletheer thought, nervously taking the nearest seat. Her doubts, however, were soon dispelled; as, drawing from his pocket a formid