DAMRAU, FREDERIC. Can faith heal the invalid?

Then an old-fashioned porticoed mansion came into view, and on signal from the driver a posse of colored servants came trooping out noisily to carry the invalid in.

Here Patricia was also brought in her wheel chair by Beth, who then left the two invalids together.

I've sent two hundred invalids to the landing, and I wanted you to go with them and when I looked around for you I saw you kiting for the line of battle!

" Probably it was the vicinity of our hotel to the Church of Notre Dame that, until we discovered its brighter side, led us to esteem Versailles a veritable city of the dead, for on our bi-daily walks to visit the invalids we were almost certain to encounter a funeral procession either approaching or leaving Notre Dame.

The doctor's advice was to bring the young invalid to the hospital in Sils, where she would be well taken care of and he could see her every day.

Other means have also been employed to entertain and amuse the distinguished invalid during his enforced rest.

"I'm much obliged," muttered the invalid.

Mary did not neglect the invalid during this new phase of her existence.

Zorro aids an invalid.

An hour later when Emily went up, she peeped in to see if Sophie was sleeping nicely, and was surprised to find the invalid wrapped in a dressing-gown writing busily.

That fellow with the long beard is the physician R, who has become rich by making invalids more than by curing them.

Hastily leaving the coach and sending the family forward with all possible dispatch, I chartered a common dray, the only conveyance at hand, placed a trunk upon it, took the invalid in my arms, seated myself on the trunk, and bade the driver to put his horse on his best speed.

" The friends I had met at the Eutaw House had all gone but one, the lady of an officer from Boston, who was most amiable and agreeable, and whose benevolence, as I afterwards learned, soon reached the invalids I had left suffering at Frederick.

"Did you ever meet an invalid who didn't enjoy talking about his own health?

" "Where you get such rascally ideas from, I can't think," mused the invalid.

Instead of calling help in the first stagesunwilling to disturb his relativesthe invalid wandered down stairs during the night, and into the court-yard.

Another effort was made to rise, which so far succeeded as to enable the invalid to sit up in his bed.

Eleseus was the man for this sort of work; he was bright and quick, and encouraged the invalid by assuring him that things were all right; the two had got on well together, even to jesting at times.

They then went to examine the invalid and to try her pulse.

"Whoever he is," she said fretfully, "I hope he is not going to allow Amy to fancy herself an invalid.

"I don't feel like I ought to be eating upstairs this way," fussed the invalid as Esther came in with the tray.

Every trooper who could ride a horse was needed now; hospitals had given up their invalids; convalescents and sick men gathered bridle with shaking fingers; hollow-eyed youngsters tightened the cheek-straps of their forage caps and waited, lance in rest.

This disease then annually cost the lives of a large number of American men and women, and a considerable additional number went home invalids for life as a result of infection with it.

But by the time he got his chance at greeting the invalid, he was able to see clearly for himself just how Sally was looking.