Little Dr. Fisher was rapidly untying the unlucky stocking; and,
whipping off the boot, he soon made sure that no ligaments were broken.
Then he put on the boot and the woollen sock, being careful to tie it
in front over the instep, and whipping out his big handkerchief he
proceeded to bandage the ankle in a truly scientific way. "Now, then,
Mrs. Henderson, you are all right to take the walk slowly back to the
hotel."
Parson Henderson took his wife's hand. "Come, Sarah," he said, gently
helping her up.
"Oh, you are going over the _Mauvais Pas_," she cried in distress
at the thought of his missing it.
"Come, Sarah," he said gently, keeping her hand in his.
"I'll go back with her too," said little Dr. Fisher.
"Oh, Adoniram!" exclaimed his wife, but it was under her breath, and no
one heard the exclamation.
"I think Dr. Fisher ought to go with the other party; he will be needed
there," Mrs. Selwyn was saying, in her quiet way. "And I will bathe
Mrs. Henderson's foot just as he says it should be done, so good-by,"
and any one looking down with a field glass from the Montanvert hotel,
could have seen at this point, two parties, one proceeding to the
_Mauvais Pas_ and the _Chapeau_, and the other of three ladies,
the parson and a guide, wending their way slowly on the return across
the crevasses.
XXVI
"WELL, HERE WE ARE IN PARIS!"
Notwithstanding all the glory of the shops, and the tempting array of
the jewellery and trinkets of every description therein displayed,
after a few days of sailing on the exquisite lake, and some walks and
drives, Polly, down deep in her heart, was quite ready to move on from
Geneva.
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