`` I 'll be back tomorrow . '' Harmon remained delirious for a week . Alan went every day to Four Winds , his interest in a man he had rescued explaining his visits to the Rexton people . The Captain had returned and , though not absolutely uncivil , was taciturn and moody . Alan reflected grimly that Captain Anthony probably owed him a grudge for saving Harmon 's life . He never saw Lynde alone , but her strained , tortured face made his heart ache . Old Emily only seemed her natural self . She waited on Harmon and Dr. Ames considered her a paragon of a nurse . Alan thought it was well that Emily knew nothing more of Harmon than that he was an old friend of Captain Anthony 's . He felt sure that she would have walked out of the sick room and never reentered it had she guessed that the patient was the man whom , above all others , Lynde dreaded and feared . One afternoon when Alan went to Four Winds Emily met him at the door . `` He 's better , '' she announced . `` He had a good sleep this afternoon and when he woke he was quite himself . You 'd better go up and see him . I told him all I could but he wants to see you . Anthony and Lynde are away to Crosse Harbour . Go up and talk to him . '' Harmon turned his head as the minister approached and held out his hand with a smile . `` You 're the preacher , I reckon . They tell me you were the man who pulled me out of that hurly-burly .
I was n't hardly worth saving but I 'm as grateful XXXXX you as if I was . ''
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