Excerpt from The History of David Grieve, Vol. 3 of 3
In two or three days the English doctor who was attending David strongly advised Mr. Ancrum to get his charge home. The fierce strain his youth had sustained acting through the nervous system had disordered almost every bodily function, and the collapse which followed Mr. Ancrum"s appearance was severe. He would lie in his bed motionless and speechless, volunteered no confidence, and showed hardly any rallying power.
"Get him out of this furnace and that doghole of a room," said the doctor. "He has come to grief here somehow - that"s plain. You won"t make anything of him till you move him."
When the lad was at last stretched on the deck of a Channel steamer speeding to the English coast, and the sea breeze had brought a faint touch of returning colour to his cheek, he asked the question he had never yet had the physical energy to ask.
"Why did you come, and how did you find me?"
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