“I rather thought this might happen but did not think it would be so soon,” the doctor told Mary Louise. “Was there anything to excite him especially?” he asked.
Mary Louise told him of the wireless message she had just received from her husband and of the statement her grandfather had made that it was a message from the spirit world.
“Of course, it was proof that my husband was well and thinking of me. That was all—but Grandpa Jim takes such strange notions lately and there is no turning him from them. He said he had dreamed he saw Danny in the water but that is no indication of an accident.”
“Certainly not!” assured Dr. Coles. “When did your husband sail?”
“Ten days ago!”
“What was the name of his boat?”
“The Spokane!”
Dr. Coles said nothing but in his kind eyes there was a depth of concern for the girl. He looked at her a moment and then turned to the inert form of the old man.
“His pulse is fairly good and I fancy he will be coming around pretty soon,” he said briskly. “I am going to send you a nurse immediately.”
“Oh, don’t send a nurse! Please let me attend to him. I am as strong as can be. You don’t know how much I can do.”