David Baker’s Opinion 
     
    
   
   
    
     cases on record where pre-natal influences 
     
     have produced a like result. I cannot just 
     
     now remember whether any were ever 
     
     cured. Well, I’ll see if anything can be 
     
     done for this girl. I cannot express any 
     
     further opinion until I have examined 
     
     her.” 
     
    

    
     The next morning Eric took David up 
     
     to the Gordon homestead. As they ap- 
     
     proached the 01d orchard a strain of music 
     
     came floating through the resinous morn- 
     
     ing arcades of the spruce wood—a 
     
     wild, sorrowful, appealing cry, full of 
     
     indescribable pathos, yet marvellously 
     
     sweet. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “What is that“? ” exclaimed David, 
     
     starting. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ That is Kihneny playing on her vio- 
     
     lin,” answered Eric. “ She has great 
     
     talent in that respect and improvises won— 
     
     derful melodies.” 
     
    

    
     When they reached the orchard Kil- 
     
     meny rose from the old bench» to meet 
     
    
   
   
    
     them, her lovely luminous eyes distended, 
     
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