Loved and Lost by Bertha M. Clay — Read

For fully five minutes Colonel Dacre knelt beside the lifeless body, then he rose up stern and resolute to do his duty. First of all he roused Wiginton, and had the dead man carried into the inn, and laid on the bed he had occupied twenty-four hours ago. Wiginton evidently thought that it was a case of sudden death, for he said, with real feeling:

"Poor gentleman! And he looked so healthy, too. Hadn't I better go for a doctor, sir?"