"Sing again," commanded the doctor, and once more the sweet and tender voice of Sister Mary was heard, and Edward opened his eyes. When the song was over, he looked strangely at the doctor, and said, "Where am I? Where is Nellie?" "You are all right," said the doctor; and Sister Mary walked out of the room, going to the little chapel of the hospital, where she prayed the most fervent prayer of her life. "My God. Give me the strength to keep away from him," she prayed, and her prayer must have been heard, because Edward never saw Sister Mary again. From this time Edward's recovery was gradual and uninterrupted. From the time he first lost his reason he remembered nothing. A month later he was in Chicago visiting his friend, the Russian, and from there he went to his home in Canada, where no one ever expected to see him again, except Marie Louise, his first love, who said that she always felt that he would come back. "Tell me of your life," she asked him. "It would do you no good," he said, and never told her; but he often asked her to sing, "Rendez-moi ma patrie." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Wanderings of French Ed, by Joseph René