“Are you often seized in this way?” he asked.
“Not often so suddenly and violently, though I have been in the grip of my enemy for years.”
Grant and the Sick Miner.
CHAPTER XXV.
ANOTHER LONELY CABIN.
They reached the cabin at last, and then a question which Grant was about to ask was answered. The old man lived alone.
The furniture was of the simplest: a bed, a couple of chairs, a table, and a few dishes.
“Is there no one to take care of you?” asked Grant.
“No, I need no one,” was the quick reply. “I have remedies that will soon quiet the pain.”
“I should think you would feel lonely.”