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Ar'd;" and she turned pale and shook like a leaf; but the spirit was
willing, and she persisted she was ready to go. However it turned out
that there was a labourer's cottage about a quarter of a mile off, and
she was finally dispatched there for assistance. Few people know the
ready humanity which exists among the lower orders: the man must have
run all the way to Oxford, for he returned in little more than half an
hour, before the surgeon could dress and mount his horse. However,
Chesterton was evidently still living; and when the surgeon did arrive
he gave some hopes of his recovery. The weight of the blow had been in
some degree broken by the gun which poor Harry had raised in his hand,
and this only could have saved the skull from fracture. Of course we had
soon plenty of volunteers who were ready to be useful in any way; and
when at last the police had made their appearance, and removed both the
living and the dead, and Chesterton had been laid in Brown's room, and
the surgeon, having applied the usual remedies, had composedly accepted
Mrs Nutt's offer to make up a bed for him, and betaken himself thereto,
as if such events were to him matters of everyday occurrence--I suppose
they were--it struck me, for the first time, that there wa