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He would not even give them the address of her house. "'He is in abject terror, Lyle said. 'I assured him that he was not suspected of the crime, but he would tell me nothing. "There were no other developments until two o'clock this afternoon, when word was brought to us that Arthur had been found, and that he was lying in the accident-ward of St. George's Hospital.
"Above all," she said to herself, "there shall be no room for unhealthy thought. I must cultivate my garden." That was what she was thinking of at four in the afternoon: how she could best cultivate her garden. At five she was lying unconscious in the accident-ward of the New Hospital: she had been knocked down by a waggon, and terribly injured. She will not recover, the Doctor said to the nurse.
When the house-surgeon had paid his last visit, and the nurses had gone their rounds in the accident-ward, and no sound disturbed the quiet of the dimly-lighted apartment save the heavy fitful breathing and occasional moans and restless motions of the sufferers, Nikel Sling raised himself on his elbow, and glanced stealthily round on the rows of pain-worn and haggard countenances around him.
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