Doctor Hudson inquired the direction, and promised to be at his house in half an hour. Soon after the unhappy father left, he took a case of instruments, and stepping into his carriage, drove to the residence of Mr. Dunbar. The old man still kept a small grocery, through which the doctor passed into a poorly furnished room, and then up a dark stairway to a chamber over the store. Everything bore the stamp of poverty. At the door of the chamber he met the father and mother, the latter weeping bitterly, and the former with a face of deep distress. "Doctor," whispered the old man, "I'm afraid all is hopeless. But we will trust in your skill for all that human aid can do." Doctor Hudson entered the room, and stood beside the bed where lay his patient, feeling sadder than he had felt for a long time. There was the well-known face of his old friend and school companion; but white, and thin, and painful in its expression. The breath came feebly through his lips, and the motions of his chest were scarcely perceptible. He laid his finger upon his wrist, but the pulse was so low in the artery, if it beat at all at so great a distance from the heart, that he could not find it. A slight examination of his injuries was now made. There were two deep wounds between the ribs on the right side, inflicted with a knife or dirk, and a shot wound on the left breast. The ball had struck the sternum, glanced upwards at an angle, and entered among the muscles of the left axilla or armpit, where it still remained, deeply imbedded. There was already considerable inflammation of all the wounds, which had received but temporary dressings. As for the patient, his mind was completely obscured. He noticed no one, and uttered nothing more than an occasional groan. Any attempt to remove the ball, at present, was considered too hazardous to be made. Slight dressings were applied to the wounds, and the best means used for allaying the inflammation. Before Doctor Dunbar left the house, one of the men who had brought the wounded man to Philadelphia came in, and from him were obtained the following facts:—