Mary quickly recovered under the ministrations of the old doctor. "I'm all right now," she murmured, and in reply to his question smiled weakly. "I went to sleep outside in the sun, and I guess it was too much for me."
Father David had called Nellie and ordered her to assist Mary to bed. "You must take care of yourself," he said, when she protested against retiring. "You just take it easy for a few days, for you've been working pretty hard lately."
"There's something on the child's mind," he said to Collishaw when they were alone. "I wonder what it is."
"I think that it was our talk of the medicine men and evil spirits," suggested the policeman.
"Nonsense."
"Well, you may be right, but she once told me that her aunt had spent years in India and used to tell her stories of the faki
