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 to appear , and meanwhile Miss Calista was looking about her warily . She could afford to wait a while , for the crop was all in and the fall ploughing done , so that the need of a successor to Caleb was not as pressing as it might otherwise have been . There was no lack of applicants , such as they were .
Miss Calista was known to be a kind and generous mistress , although she had her `` ways , '' and insisted calmly and immovably upon wholehearted compliance XXXXX them .
about as at before between for in of over with