About
noon
He turned restlessly on his pillow that night , and woke feverish in the morning . Mrs. Raines now took as much pains to keep people who called from seeing her hero as she had before put herself out to display the invalid . Even the doctor , calling about nine o'clock , was sent away on some pretext , and the poor lady waited with an anxiety , almost as poignant as Jack 's own , for the response to his note . About noon it came . Mrs. Raines went to the door herself , not daring to trust the colored girl , who had lavished untold pains on Jack 's linen and the manual part of his care . Jack heard low voices in the hallway , then on the stairs , and he knew some one had come . `` Here is Miss Atterbury sent to fetch you , lieutenant , '' Mrs. Raines said , now very much relieved , and impressed , too , by the powerful friends her dangerous _ protégé _ was able to summon so promptly by a line .