Lady Victoria Campbell

336 "REST AND BE THANKFUL"
Ian Deleas — " Faithful John/' was her right-hand
man in the Lodge, and he knew, as none other, how
to help her into the buckboard, and save her from
all the fatigue that strong and thoughtful aid could
give.
So sped the winter months, till the day came round
for looking across the waters towards " the Holy
City," and preparing there to keep the great tryst.
She was often laid aside in the islands, but she never
had in the western seas any of those alarming ill-
nesses which elsewhere brought her to the gates of
death.
One of these she was to undergo in the winter
of 1906. She had left Tiree to pass Christmas at
Inveraray, but she only reached it to be taken with
a long and wearying illness.
Dec. 22nd, 1906.
Reached the old Home. Feeling very done.
Great strain. Running down the Rest.
The death of Principal Story in 1907 affected her
much, and in January there occurs the rare entry :
" Must give in." She reached Edinburgh, but the
illness there became a very serious one, and it was not
till March that she was able to get out. " Perfect
reception of good-byes," she notes. She rested
nearly a month at Peterborough, and in May, when
she came to London, " the Dr. indicated must be
a time of rest," was the not unnatural result of a
consultation.