Stanton brought the doctor promptly, but no patient could be found.
All that could be learned was that "Miss Mayhew had gone for a
walk."
"Her case cannot be very critical," the physician remarked, smilingly;
"I will call again."
Stanton and his aunt looked at each other in a way that proved the
case was beginning to trouble them seriously.
"She knew the doctor would be here," said Mrs. Mayhew.
"I fear her complaint is one that the doctors can't help, and that
she knows it," replied the young man, gloomily. "But you seem to
know less about her than any one else. I shall try to find her."
But he did not succeed.
"Miss Burton," said Van Berg, after dinner, "I wish you would call
on Miss Mayhew. I think she is greatly in need of a little of your
inimitable tact and skill. 'A wounded spirit who can bear?' And
in such an emergency, you are the best surgeon I know of. I think
some of us wounded her deeply and unpardonably by continuing to
associate her with Sibley, after he revealed what an unmitigated
rascal he was. Strong as appearances were against her, I feel that
I cannot forgive myself that I took anything for granted in a case
like that.
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