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Unfortunately it was too early in the season for the hotels to have
marshalled their full establishment, and such careful and surefooted
bearers as the sufferers needed could not be had in sufficient
numbers, so that Dr. Medlicott was forced to decide on leaving the
elder patient for a night at Schwarenbach. The move might be matter
of life or death to Armine; but Jock was better, the pain could be
somewhat allayed by anodynes, the fever was abating, and he would
rather gain than lose by another day of rest, provided he would only
accept his fate patiently, and also if he could be properly attended
to. If Mr. Graham would stay with him—-
So breakfast was eaten, bills were paid, horses hired, and the whole
cavalcade started from Kandersteg in time to secure the best part of
a bright hot day for the transit.
They met Mr. Graham, who had been glad to escape as soon as Mrs.
Brownlow had found other assistance, so that the doctor was
disappointed in his hope of a guardian for Jock. Lord Fordham
offered to lend Reeves, but that functionary absolutely refused to
separate himself from his charge, observing—-
"I am responsible for your lordship to your mamma, and it does not
lie within my province to leave you on any account."
Reeves always called Mrs.
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