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`` He must go with me , '' said Grace . `` He is my friend . '' So they took him up , and Joan stood a little apart and watched them carry him away , -- watched the bearers until they were out of sight , and then turned again and joined the women in their work among the sufferers . CHAPTER XXXVI - Alive Yet In the bedroom above the small parlor a fire was burning at midnight , and by this fire Grace was watching . The lamp was turned low and the room was very quiet ; a dropping cinder made quite a startling sound . When a moan or a movement of the patient broke the stillness -- which was only at rare intervals -- the Curate rose and went to the bedside . But it was only to look at the sufferer lying upon it , bandaged and unconscious .