THE COMING OF NOREEN
The next day came a new element in the situation: a ship arrived from
England. On it was one who had come to Jamaica to act as governess to two
children of the officer commanding the regular troops in the island. She
had been ill for a week before nearing Kingston, and when the Regent
reached the harbour she was in a bad way. The ship's doctor was
despondent about her; but he was a second-rate man, and felt that perhaps
an island doctor might give her some hope. When she was carried ashore
she was at once removed to the home of the general commanding at Spanish
Town, and there a local doctor saw her.
"What is her history?" he asked, after he had seen the haggard face of
the woman.
The ship's doctor did not know; and the general commanding was in the
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