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slowly back toward our gate. Robert had got in, and was 

 talking excitedly with the people inside, whoever they 

 were. Utterly forgetting Mr. Kempenfielder, I stepped into 

 the street to see who had arrived. As the carriage drew up 

 to the gate, the door was thrown open, and out stepped our 

 friend and physician, the doctor. 



" Why, Mrs. Nelson ! This is indeed a surprise and a 

 pleasure. I need not ask how you are. I have prima facie 

 evidence of your health before my eyes. And your husband 

 too. I did not know him ; he is altogether a new 

 man." 



Before I could answer a word Robert jumped out, and as- 

 sisting a lady to alight brought her to me. 



" Julia," said the doctor, " this is Mrs. Nelson, another 

 of my patients. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are the two young 

 people I told you about. You remember I sent them into 

 the country last spring when they were both nearly 

 dead." 



"Indeed, doctor, I did not know I was your patient be- 

 fore," said I, extending my hand to the pleasant little 

 woman before me. " I am glad to see you, madam. Come 

 in, both of you." 



" Here, here, Nelson, what are you doing with those 

 horses ? " 



" Going to put them in the barn." 



