"Brain fever!" he said. "He has had some terrible shock, I think, from the symptoms. I shall send you a trained hospital nurse, Carmontelle, for there must be careful nursing here if we bring the poor fellow out alive."
The nurse came, and was duly installed in his position, aided and abetted by Maud and Edith.
Carmontelle, after a day or two, stole away from the house long enough to consult his family lawyer on the subject of ferreting to the bottom the story the wicked Mme. Remond had told him of Una's birth.
At an early period of the narration of his story the lawyer became visibly excited.
"Go on. Tell me everything," he said, nervously, and Carmontelle obeyed.
When he had finished, Mr. Frayser cried out, eagerly:
"Upon my soul, Carmontelle, I believe the good Lord himself has sent you to me. You know I was Lorraine's lawyer?"
"I did not know it," was the answer.
"Yes," said Mr. Frayser; "and my client died a few months ago, in an insane asylum."