It had no effect upon the cries; no pendulum could be more regular.
"For the reason that my hand had this effect (I assume), I had sat by the side of the bed for half an hour, with the two brothers looking on, before the elder said:
"'There is another patient.'
"I was startled, and asked, 'Is it a pressing case?'
"'You had better see,' he carelessly answered; and took up a light.
* * *
"The other patient lay in a back room across a second staircase, which was a species of loft over a stable.
There was a low plastered ceiling to a part of it; the rest was open, to the ridge of the tiled roof, and there were beams across.
Hay and straw were stored in that portion of the place, fagots for firing, and a heap of apples in sand.
I had to pass through that part, to get at the other.