On his return Mandy told him that Miss Alice was in the parlor and would
like to see him. As he entered the room she recognized his footstep, and
starting to her feet turned towards him. He advanced to meet her and
took both her hands in his.
"How can I thank you, my good friend," said she, "for the interest that
you have taken in me, and how can I repay you for the money that you
have spent?"
Quincy was at first disposed to deny his connection with the matter, but
thinking that Uncle Ike must have told of it, he said, "I don't think it
was quite fair for Uncle Ike, after promising to keep silent!"
"It was not Uncle Ike's fault," broke in Alice; "it was nobody's fault.
Nobody had told the doctor that there was any secret about it, and so he
spoke freely of your visit to the city, and of what you had said, and of
the arrangements that you had made to have the treatment continued as
long as it produced satisfactory results. But," continued Alice, "how
can I ever pay you this great sum of money that it will cost for my
treatment?"
"Do not worry about that, Alice," said he, using her Christian name for
the second time, "the money is nothing.
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