`` Carl , are you sick ? '' he said . `` That -- tombstone -- over here , '' said Carl , `` it 's -- moving -- about -- it 's coming -- at -- me -- keep it -- away -- please . '' Mr. Meredith rushed to the telephone . In ten minutes Dr. Blythe was at the manse . Half an hour later a wire was sent to town for a trained nurse , and all the Glen knew that Carl Meredith was very ill with pneumonia and that Dr. Blythe had been seen to shake his head . Gilbert shook his head more than once in the fortnight that followed . Carl developed double pneumonia . There was one night when Mr. Meredith paced his study floor , and Faith and Una huddled in their bedroom and cried , and Jerry , wild with remorse , refused to budge from the floor of the hall outside Carl 's door . Dr. Blythe and the nurse never left the bedside . They fought death gallantly until the red dawn and they won the victory . Carl rallied and passed the crisis in safety . The news was phoned about the waiting Glen and people found out how much they really loved their minister and his children . `` I have n't had one decent night 's sleep since I heard the child was sick , '' Miss Cornelia told Anne , `` and Mary Vance has cried until those queer eyes of hers looked like burnt holes in a blanket . Is it true that Carl got pneumonia from straying out in the graveyard that wet night for a dare ? '' `` No . He was staying there to punish himself for cowardice in that affair of the Warren ghost . It seems they have a club for bringing themselves up , and they punish themselves when they do wrong . Jerry told Mr. Meredith all about it . '' `` The poor little souls , '' said Miss Cornelia .
XXXXX got better rapidly , for the congregation took enough nourishing things to the manse to furnish forth a hospital .
Anne Carl Cornelia Gilbert Glen Una Vance left night pneumonia