"Make your minds easy. A little lower down, or in front, the blow might
have been serious. As it is, there is no harm done. Keep him quiet, and
he will be all right again in two or three days."
Hearing those welcome words, Natalie and her aunt sank on their knees in
silent gratitude. After dressing the wound, the doctor looked round for
the master of the house. Turlington, who had been so breathlessly eager
but a few minutes since, seemed to have lost all interest in the case
now. He stood apart, at the window, looking out toward the church-yard,
thinking. The questions which it was the doctor's duty to ask were
answered by the ladies. The servants assisted in examining the injured
man's clothes: they discovered that his watch and purse were both
missing. When it became necessary to carry him upstairs, it was the
footman who assisted the doctor. The foot man's master, without a word
of explanation, walked out bare headed into the back garden, on the
search, as the doctor and the servants supposed, for some trace of the
robber who had attempted Sir Joseph's life.
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