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Poor Morris! he did not dream how anxiously he aited for at home, nor yet of the crowd assembled at the depot to welcome back the loved physician, whom they had missed so much, and whose name they had so often heard coupled with praise as a true hero, even though his post was not in the front of the battle Thousands had been cared for by hi heads soothed tenderly, and their last moments made happier by the words he spoke to the, where there is noof man's blood In the churchyard at Silverton there were three soldiers' graves, whose pale occupants had each died with Dr Grant's hand held tightly in his, as if afraid that he would leave them before the dark river was crossed, while in more than one Silverton ho loosely, who never tired of telling Dr Morris' praise and dwelling on his goodness But Dr Morris was not thinking of this as, faint and sick, with the green shade before his eyes, he leaned against the pile of shawls his companion had placed for his back and wondered if they were almost there

"I smell the pond lilies; we h escaped his lips as he thought of co able to see it or the woods and fields around it "Thy will be done," he had said many times since the fear first crept into his heart that for hiht had faded

But nohen hoan to breathe the air froland lilies, the flesh rebelled again, and he cried out within himself: "Oh, I cannot be blind! God will not deal thus byhich he thought of Katy, and wondered would she care if he were blind

Just then the long train stopped at Silverton, and, led by his attendant, he stepped feebly into the crohich sent up deafening cheers for Dr Grant coht of his helplessness, however, a feeling of awe fell upon the to each other, "I did not suppose he was so bad," they pressed around hi anxiously hoas

"I have been sick, but I shall get better now The very sound of your friendly voices does h I cannot see you distinctly," he said, as he went slowly to his carriage, led now by Uncle Ephraim, who could not keep back his tears as he saeak Morris was, panting for breath as he leaned back a the cushions