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For Kern did not get well , no matter what the calendar said , no matter how loyally Writing-Desk stood at her elbow to serve her , as It had said in the Note . Her morning temperature shot up a degree again , and there it stood day after day , and would not go down . Kern obviously grew thinner and weaker . And there came a day when the President of the Settlement Association , Mr. Stewart Byrd , came in person to the Dabney House before ten o'clock , and sent all the workmen away . He said there must be no noise about the place that day ... . That relapse passed , but no one could say what a day might bring forth . The young doctor looked back over the past ; he bowed beneath the burden that he felt upon him .