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CHAP. XI.
An escape from earthly cares and sorrows.
Mrs Mason's apprehensions concerning the consequences of the infectious air, were too effectually realised. While the farmer yet hovered on the brink of death, his wife, and Robert his second son, were both taken ill; and great reason there was to fear, that the fever might go through the whole family. By means of the surgeon, who was immediately sent for, an account of Mrs Mason's distressed situation reached her friends at Gowan-brae; and no sooner were they informed of it, than the car was dspatched for her, with a trusty ser-
