As Uncle Walter bent over her he saw the broad red scar and started back with an exclamation . `` She is dead ? '' gasped Jims . `` No , '' said Uncle Walter , bending down again -- `` no , she has only fainted , Jims -- overcome by the heat , I suppose . I want help . Go and call somebody . '' `` There 's no one home here to-day , '' said Jims , in a spasm of joy so great that it shook him like a leaf . `` Then go home and telephone over to Mr. Loring 's . Tell them I want the nurse who is there to come here for a few minutes . '' Jims did his errand . Uncle Walter and the nurse carried Miss Avery into the house and then Jims went back to the blue room . He was so unhappy he did n't care where he went . He wished something would jump at him out of the bed and put an end to him . Everything was discovered now and he would never see Miss Avery again . Jims lay very still on the window seat . He did not even cry . He had come to one of the griefs that lie too deep for tears . `` I think I must have been put under a curse at birth , '' thought poor Jims . * * * * * Over at the stone house Miss Avery was lying on the couch in her room . The nurse had gone away and Dr. Walter was sitting looking at her .
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