`` I screamed for Dick , rang the bell and rushed to her . `` In a few minutes the whole household was aroused , and Dick was off posthaste for the doctor , for we could not revive Miriam from her death-like swoon . She seemed as one dead . We worked over her for hours . She would come out of her faint for a moment , give us an unknowing stare and go shudderingly off again . `` The doctor talked of some fearful shock , but I kept my own counsel . At dawn Miriam came back to life at last . When she and I were left alone , she turned to me . '' ` Sidney is dead , ' she said quietly . ' I saw him -- just before I fainted . I looked up , and he was standing between me and you . He had come to say farewell . ' `` What could I say ? Almost while we were talking a telegram came . He was dead -- he had died at the very hour at which Miriam had seen him . '' Mrs. Sefton paused , and the lunch bell rang . `` What do you think of it ? '' she queried as we rose . `` Honestly , I do n't know what I think of it , '' I answered frankly . Miss Calista 's Peppermint Bottle Miss Calista was perplexed .
Her nephew , Caleb Cramp , who had been her right-hand man for years and whom she had got well broken into her ways , had gone to the Klondike , leaving her to fill his place with the next best man ; but the next best man was slow XXXXX appear , and meanwhile Miss Calista was looking about her warily .
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