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splendid woman, and she along with her sister Miss Philip, and myself do the nursing.  One of us three always being with him.

We also have a most capable body servant of his, a french woman, and an old German courier.  So all that can be done is receiving attention.

The days although fine as far as weather goes, drag wearily onward and the contrast with those of the earlier weeks is most marked.

Mr Co is brave as a lion, and true to West Point principles.  He dreads not the gaunt figure with cross bones and skull lurking in the great house of the Plein fronting our hotel.

Still, he is wonderfully superstitious and draw most weird mental pictures of little