Lady Victoria Campbell

50 FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE
" Coveting one's neighbours' daughters is as wrong
as coveting anything else," she wrote in after years
to Lady Victoria, when desirous of her presence and
feeling there were other calls on her time. Her
nieces were to her as her very own children, and
she had the full confidence of their parents.
It was resolved to move the invalid to Lady
Emma's house in Edinburgh, and there to place her
under the care of Sir James Simpson.
The journey was done by posting, crossing the
high pass to Loch Lomond, by the road with the
stone bearing the inscription to " Rest and be
Thankful," down to Balloch, where the train hastened
and eased the weary journey.
On the road they learnt the death of the Dowager
Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady Emma felt that
another and yet nearer loss was at hand for the
Duchess, who had kept so long a vigil by the bedside
of her mother.
Lady Emma's house was then in St. Cuthbert's
Street, since renamed Torphichan Street, and the
house to which Lady Victoria was taken " a suffering
child to die " is now a nursing home. Very gravely
ill did the beloved physician find the child of his
friends, and he at once called in the aid of Dr. Halliday
Douglas. For long there seemed to be little hope,
the mischief was so extensive, and nature seemed
exhausted. Probably the worst danger was over,
and the discharge from the abscess, which had been
taken for gastric trouble, had really been complete,
and the poison had ceased to undermine the constitu-