"Very well, then, you can be trusted with these two telegrams. Don't hold them near the fire; there's a match in each of them." * * * * * SECOND WEEK As a patient Dr. Levi says I am almost as great a credit to the institution as Mrs. Chittenden-Ffollette herself. Monday.--I slept all day, waking only for meals. Tuesday.--The handcuffs slipped off my wrists and the balls and chains off my ankles. Wednesday.--My headache, sideache, backache, and shoulderache disappeared. Breakfasted with the doctor on coffee, hot biscuits, beefsteak, and griddle cakes with sausage. Thursday.--Richard Morton came. Friday.--Dismissed as completely cured. "The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts," as Cromwell wrote after the Worcester fight. THE END The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSSETTS U . S . A End of Project Gutenberg's Ladies-In-Waiting, by Kate Douglas Wiggin