Sidney will write me that . He writes when it is absolutely necessary . ' '' ` Aerial communication is n't perfected yet then ? ' I said mischievously . But , observing how really worried she seemed , I added , ` Do n't fret , Miriam . You may be mistaken . ' `` Well , two days afterwards she got a note from her lover -- the first I had ever known her to receive -- in which he said he had been thrown from his horse and had broken his left arm . It had happened the very morning Miriam received her message . `` Miriam had been with us about eight months when one day she came into my room hurriedly . She was very pale . '' ` Sidney is ill -- dangerously ill . What shall I do ? ' `` I knew she must have had another of those abominable messages -- or thought she had -- and really , remembering the incident of the broken arm , I could n't feel as sceptical as I pretended to . I tried to cheer her , but did not succeed . Two hours later she had a telegram from her lover 's college chum , saying that Mr. Claxton was dangerously ill with typhoid fever . `` I was quite alarmed about Miriam in the days that followed . She grieved and fretted continually . One of her troubles was that she received no more messages ; she said it was because Sidney was too ill to send them . Anyhow , she had to content herself with the means of communication used by ordinary mortals . `` Sidney 's mother , who had gone to nurse him , wrote every day , and at last good news came .
The crisis was over and the doctor in attendance thought XXXXX would recover .
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