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He has taken what he believed, and what physicians led him
to believe, was the best course to restore your son. Besides, Mr.
Martine is a very sick man. Even now he needs my attention more
than Captain Nichol. You must realize that he was to have married
Miss Kemble to-day; yet he brings back your son, sends for Mr.
Kemble in order that his daughter, as soon as she can realize the
strange truth, may exert her power. He himself has not seen the
girl who was to have been his bride."
"Wife, wife," said Mr. Nichol, brokingly, "no mortal man could do
more for us than Hobart Martine, God bless him!"
"Mrs. Nichol," began Mr. Kemble, "my wife and Helen both unite in
the request that you and your husband bring your son at once to
our house; perhaps you would rather meet him in the privacy--"
"Oh, no, no!" she cried, "I cannot wait. Please do not think I am
insensible to all this well-meant kindness; but a mother's heart
cannot wait. He'll know ME--me who bore him and carried him on my
breast."
"Mrs. Nichol, you shall see him at once," said the doctor.


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