“I trust in Him always, and you should also put your faith in Him.  He is strong to save.”

With this admonition to her rough companion, Agnes turned back into the rear room, and removing her hat and shawl, set herself about kindling a fire to prepare some little nourishment for her sick charges.

As the Burtons happened to keep a grocery store, she had no difficulty in selecting material fitted for her object.

They all continued on the mend until the succeeding day, when the physician having that district in charge made them a visit.  He was completely astonished upon finding how favorably the surviving cases had turned out, and he held quite a long conversation with Agnes in regard to what she had done, after which he remarked: 

“Indeed, Miss Arnold, I must confess to you that I feel disposed to credit these recoveries entirely to your faithful and intelligent nursing.  For to tell you the truth, the modes of treatment which we physicians have hitherto used in cases showing the symptoms that these did, has failed in nearly eighty per cent. of every hundred.  But it is true enough sometimes, that many of these ‘grandmother remedies’ as we call them, are more efficacious than any others.”

“This is not a grandmother’s remedy, Doctor,” smilingly replied Agnus.  “It was told to me some years ago in New Orleans.”

She here concisely narrated to him the history of her experience when she helped to nurse her father in the latter city.

“Who was it told you, Miss Arnold? was it Dr. Robinson?  He was noted about that period for his success in treating bad cases of the fever.

“No, sir, it was a Spanish gentleman, who had lived many years in Havana.  Once in Vera Cruz he took the vomito, and was saved by this treatment.

“Most astonishing!” mused the doctor.  “I shall not fail to try it.”

“I have another remedy which is equally efficient in small-pox, Doctor, that I got from the same gentleman.  You might find it useful at some time, and I assure you I have never known it to fail even in the worst cases.

“Thank you, I will accept it with pleasure.”

Miss Arnold repeated the following, and the doctor took it carefully down in his note book: 

“As soon as the headache comes, and the chill down the back, and the stomach becomes sick, and the limbs begin to ache, clear the stomach with a strong emetic, put the feet in hot mustard water several times during the next twelve hours.  Talk very often and encouragingly to the patient as the insanity begins to show itself.  As soon as the thirst sets in, give frequently alternate small drinks of cold Indian meal gruel—­no butter in the gruel—­and moderately large drinks of the best plain black tea, hot, without milk or sugar.  Occasionally the gruel may be changed and made of oatmeal, and the tea have a bit of toasted bread in it.  As the disorder goes through its course, and a craving