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100 AIS GRACE. hurriedly ; “ you’ll find her in the boat-house. I hope it isn’t serious, but I don’t know, and I’m going back to the Castle to send for the doctor. Some infernal tinker ran full tilt against her, and knocked her over. She was sensible when I left her, so there’s no concus- sion of the brain, I trust, only I’m afraid there must be a broken bone, because she seemed to be suffering so much. Go to her, and have her carried up to the house if you think she can stand it—I mustn’t stop. That fool of a doctor was there skating yesterday when nobody wanted him—why the deuce couldn’t he be there to-day! Just like him! Well, I must run on.” He was out of sight before I had time to ask for further particulars, but, indeed, it was plain that I should obtain speedier information from the evidence of my own senses than I was likely to get out of him. It did not take me long to reach the boat-house, where I found Nora lying upon a pile of cloaks and overcoats, and surrounded by a dismayed and sympathetic throng. She was pale, and seemed to be in a good deal of pain, but I perceived at once, to my great relief, that her brain was uninjured, and, as soon as she saw me, she tried, without very much success, to summon upa laugh. “Don’t look so horrified, Phil,” said she; “I’m not killed this time. I had all the breath knocked out of me, and I have bumped the back of my head, and I rather think I have broken my arm, but I’m quite capable of walking home, if they would let me.’ It appeared to me that she might, at any rate, be carried home out of the cold, and I was making prep- arations for doing this when, by good luck, the doctar, who had come, as usual, to seek a little recreation after his daily rounds, arrived upon the scene. Gomichboo “S (E(@)