The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 19 Page 10

himself was turmoil and impatience. But he knew that to remain calm and unmoved was to keep back his fever and hasten recuperation, so he closed his eyes and tried to live for the moment in the remembrance of that awakening when he had found her kneeling at his side. Thus he dropped to sleep, and again, when he awoke, he found Cassandra there as if in answer to his silent call.

She was seated quietly sewing, as if it were no unusual thing for her to visit him thus, and when his earnest gaze caused her to look up, she only smiled without perturbation and came to him.

“I sent Aunt Sally down to see mother while I could stay by you and do for you a little,” she said.

Calm and restful she seemed, yet when he extended his free hand and took hers,