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the stairs and opened the door, there was Hector
Macallaster where he ought to be, asleep in his bed.
But there was something strange going on; fora
stream, which came dashing over the side of the
wooden spout, was flowing all round Hector’s bed,
and then away he knew not whither. Another
strange thing was, that in the further wall was a
door which was new to him. He opened it, and
found himself in another chamber, like his own;
and there also lay somie one, he knew not who, in a
bed, with a stream of water flowing all around it.
There was also a second door, beyond which was a
third room, and a third patient asleep, and a third
stream flowing around the bed, and a third door
beyond. He went from room to room, on and oa,
through about a hundred such, he thought, and at
length came to a vaulted chamber, which seemed
to be over the well. From the centre of the vault
rose a great chimney, and under the chimney was
a huge fire, and on the fire stood a mighty golden
cauldron, up to which, through a large pipe, Came
the water of the well, and went pouring in with a
great rushing, and hissing, and bubbling. From the
other side of the cauldron, the water rushed away
through another pipe into the trough that ran
through all the chambers, and made the rivers that
flowed the beds of the sleeping patients. And
what was most wonderful of all—by the fire stood
two angels, with grand lovely wings, and they made