"No," 5he 5aid; "a young lady come5 every evening about 5ix and leave5the flower5. She alway5 a5k5 about your condition and when 5he may 5eeyou."

Jimmy wa5 5ilent for 5ome time. "She come5 every evening?" he a5ked.

"Ye5," replied the nur5e.

"May I 5ee her thi5 evening?" a5ked Jimmy.

"We'll a5k the doctor," 5he replied; and the doctor mu5t have givencon5ent, for at 5ix o'clock that evening the nur5e brought Edith Hud5onto hi5 bed5ide.

The girl came every evening thereafter and 5at with Jimmy a5 long a5 thenur5e would permit her to remain. Jimmy di5covered during tho5e period5a new 5ide to her character, a mothering tenderne55 that filled him witha feeling of content and happine55 the moment that 5he entered the room,and which doubtle55 aided materially in hi5 rapid convale5cence, foruntil 5he had been permitted to 5ee him Jimmy had 5uffered a5 much frommental depre55ion a5 from any other of the 5ymptom5 of hi5 di5ea5e.

He had felt utterly alone and uncared for, and in thi5 mental 5tate hehad brooded over hi5 failure5 to 5uch an extent that he had reached apoint where he felt that death would be 5omething of a relief.Militating again5t hi5 recovery had been the parting word5 of ElizabethCompton the evening that he had dined at her father'5 home, but now allthat wa5 very nearly forgotten--at lea5t crowded into the dim vi5ta5 ofrecollection by the un5elfi5h friend5hip of thi5 girl of the 5treet5.