wound could be found, although there was some discoloration from the bruise; but he said he could not see with the injured eye.  The best oculists were consulted, and all agreed in their verdict:  ’There was a partial dislocation of the optic nerve, and his sight would never again be normal; it might possibly improve with the lapse of time, but the injury was permanent;’ and so it has proved.  He can detect light from darkness with that eye, but that is all.”

Katherine made no reply when this account was concluded, but there came into her face a look which, her teacher was beginning to observe, always appeared whenever mention was made of sickness or trouble of any kind; it was a far-away expression, as if her thoughts had been lifted above and beyond the world and worldly things.

It was only for a moment, however; she presently awoke to her surroundings, and calling attention to the view before them thus changed the subject, which was not referred to again.

Meantime, Dr. Stanley walked briskly towards the seminary, but with a. very thoughtful face and mien, as if he were pondering some weighty subject.

“It would be regarded as the height of absurdity,” he muttered to himself.  “But I wonder—­I really would like to put it to the test.”

Then suddenly straightening himself with a resolute air, he quickened his pace and was soon inside the school grounds, reaching the building just in season to assist Mrs. Seabrook and the nurse in getting Dorothy inside.

“Oh!  Uncle Phillip!” joyously exclaimed the girl, as soon as she espied him, for she dearly loved this gentle man, who was always as tender as a woman in his treatment of her, and spared no pains to contribute to her comfort and happiness.  “I was afraid you would not come to-day!”

“I know I am late, Dorrie, but I was detained at the office by a new patient, and now I have another coming in an hour,” he said, as he bent to touch her forehead with his lips.

“Oh then you can’t stay to finish that pretty German story!” cried the child, in a tone of disappointment.

“Not to-day, dearie; but I will come to-morrow, to let mamma and papa go to church together, and we will have a fine time by ourselves.”

Patient Dorothy expressed herself as perfectly satisfied with this arrangement, and was soon laughing merrily over some amusing incidents, of which this good comrade of hers appeared to have an exhaustless store.

These visits from her “jolly M.D. uncle,” as she sometimes called him, were like oases in a desert to the suffering child, for he invariably made her forget herself, and always left her bright and happy with something pleasant to think about and talk over with her mother or nurse.

He rolled her to her room, where, after a few minutes’ chat, he made a brief examination of her condition, with some slight change in her medicines, then left her and sought Prof.  Seabrook in his study, for it was his custom to report to him after each visit.