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I had not forgotten the clasped book that she had tried vainly to open, in Doctor Dormann's presence. Taking it myself from under the pillow, I left Mr. Keller and the doctor to say if I should give it, unopened, to Minna. "Certainly not!" said the doctor. "Why not?" "Because it will tell her what she must never know. I believe that book to be a Diary. Open it, and see."

Keller's life. By Doctor Dormann's advice, those persons only were permitted to enter the bedroom whose presence was absolutely necessary. Besides Madame Fontaine and the doctor himself, Mr. Engelman and Minna were the other witnesses of the scene. Mr.

Sit down, and let me explain the strange position in which you find us here, as well as I can." "Do you remember how Mr. Keller's illness was cured?" the doctor began. Those words instantly reminded me, not only of Doctor Dormann's mysterious suspicions at the time of the illness, but of Jack's extraordinary question to me, on the morning when I left Frankfort.

The doctor hesitated. What was he to do? Jack had already returned to the cell in which his mistress lay. To remove him by the brutal exercise of main force was a proceeding from which Doctor Dormann's delicacy of feeling naturally recoiled to say nothing of the danger of provoking that outbreak of madness against which the doctor had himself warned Mr. Keller.