As soon as she reached home,
she quickly tied the goat, without going into the cottage at all, and ran
back the same way she had come, down again to Kandergrund.
The Pastor told her with great consideration, how Toni had not borne the
life on the mountain very well and they had been obliged to bring him
down, and since it seemed best for him that he should go at once to a good
physician for the right care, he had sent the boy immediately to Bern.
His mother was very much shocked and wanted to travel the next day to see
for herself if her child was very ill.
But the Pastor said that would not do, but that she should wait until the
doctor allowed a visit, and she could be sure that Toni was receiving the
best care.
With a heavy heart Elsbeth went back to her cottage. She could do nothing
but leave it all to the dear Lord, who alone had been her trust for so
many years. But it was only a few days later when the Pastor sent her word
that she was to go to Bern at once, as the doctor wished her to come.
Early the following day Elsbeth started. About noon she reached Bern and
soon was standing in front of the door of the sanitarium.
She was led to the doctor's living-room and here received with great
friendliness by his wife and with still keener sympathy by the lady from
Geneva, who had so lived in the history of poor Toni and his mother that
she could hardly think of anything else but how to help these two.
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