tears.When the voice ceased he fell back saying, "My God! Nellie!"
"I have killed him," said Sister Mary.
"No, you have saved him!" answered the doctor, bending over hispatient, whose face was covered with cold sweat, and every nervetwitching.
"Sing again," commanded the doctor, and once more the sweet andtender voice of Sister Mary was heard, and Edward opened his eyes.When the song was over, he looked strangely at the doctor, and said,"Where am I? Where is Nellie?"
"You are all right," said the doctor; and Sister Mary walked out ofthe room, going to the little chapel of the hospital, where sheprayed the most fervent prayer of her life. "My God. Give me thestrength to keep away from him," she prayed, and her prayer must havebeen heard, because Edward never saw Sister Mary again.
From this time Edward's recovery was gradual and uninterrupted.
From the time he first lost his reason he remembered nothing. A monthlater he was in Chicago visiting his friend, the Russian, and fromthere he went to his home in Canada, where no one ever expected tosee him again, except Marie Louise, his first love, who said that shealways felt that he would come back.
"Tell me of your life," she asked him.
"It would do you no good," he said, and never told her; but he oftenasked her to sing, "Rendez-moi ma patrie."
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