The Unholy Wish And Other Stories Author:Mrs. Henry Wood General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Macmillan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " Very. By the way, Mrs. Yorke," added the surgeon, halting for a moment, " you must not suffer the boy to stir outside. The sun might affect his head." " Of course not," she answered. However, Leopold did get outside, he and his white- bandaged forehead, and tore about, boy-like, the sun's rays streaming full on his uncovered head. In some twenty minutes he was discovered; the bandage off, and he scarlet. Suddenly he began to scream out, "My head aches! my head aches! " Finch said it was " temper," at being fetched in, and crossly assured him if his head did ache, which she didn't believe, for he never had a headache, it had come as a punishment for stealing out in disobedience. But at night the child was so ill and uneasy that Mr. Yorke himself sent for the surgeon. Leopold's face had not paled, and he still moaned out the same cry, " My head, my head!" " He has been out," exclaimed Mr. Janson. " Why was I disobeyed? This is a sun-stroke." The boy's self-will was alone to blame. Mrs. Yorke had coaxed him into lying on the sofa in the drawing-room " for a nice mid-day sleep," and went into the nursery, leaving him, as she believed, safe. Up jumped Master Leopold the instant he found himself at liberty, and dropped down from the low window, which stood so temptingly open. That was how it had happened. His heart was set upon getting into the garden, simply because it was denied to him. CHAPTER X. JEALOUS DOUBTS. A Few days, and Leopold Yorke was so far recovered, that an intermittent fever alone remained. Mr. Yorke, in spite of his jealous prejudices, had been oblig...« less