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Perhaps, too, you'll let the doctor advise you about that anti-toxin? I should, if I were you." "Yes, I'll let him talk to me, if you like." Anything to get rid of her, he thought. He kept his eyes tight closed until she was well out of the room and the door shut behind her. Then he sprang out of bed and with trembling haste put on his clothes.
She must remember there was about one chance in a hundred of there being anything in her mad idea; she must say nothing till she knew for certain. There could be no immediate peril, unless, of course.... The needle again! Those injections, of anti-toxin they kept talking about ... if only she knew, could be sure! Fresh terror assailed her, she felt herself caught in a trap....
You never saw that a row of yellow houses with the door-sills level to the mud and ashes of the alley, and swarms of children who stare and whisper, "Here's the 'Father." Number 7 1/2 was marked with a membraneous croup sign the usual lie to avoid strict quarantine and still get anti-toxin at the free dispensary; the room was unspeakable shut windows and a crowd of people.
He was in danger now; he had no suspicion to protect him. Unless he held firm against that anti-toxin he was already doomed. How could she tell if they had already overcome his prejudice? Perhaps he had by now had the injections, one, two even. If he had, nothing could save him, she knew that. Her heart grew cold with fear. Still, there was a loophole of hope.
"What was the matter?" "We won't bother about names," said the doctor with a kind sharpness. "You had a blister; it broke and became a sore; then you wore one of those nasty cheap socks and it poisoned it. That's all." "That's in those bottles?" asked Frank languidly. "Well, it's an anti-toxin," said the doctor. "That doesn't tell you much, does it?"
It shut the book out from its borders as far as it could, and one who inquired for it in a Southern bookstore would probably be offered Aunt Phillis's Cabin or some other mild literary anti-toxin. The South protested that the book's picture of slavery was untrue and unjust.
She looked fragile and wan, all life gone out of her. "My dear," she said gently to Roger, going up to him and putting her hand on his shoulder, "I had the same symptoms that you have the same that poor Charles had. This is a dreadful epidemic; no one is safe. But look at me I escaped it, I am perfectly well. Why? Because I took the anti-toxin." "Of course, Roger," his aunt urged eagerly.
If they persuaded him to submit to those injections of so-called anti-toxin.... "Oh Chalmers!" For the second time that day she ran bolt into the dignified person of the butler, who was crossing on his way to the stairs. She pulled herself up and spoke to him in a choking voice: "Chalmers, for God's sake wake Mr. Roger at once! Tell him I have something to say to him.
There was absolutely every element necessary to explain Frank's remarks during his delirium; he was a religiously-minded boy, poisoned by a toxin and treated by the anti-toxin. What in the world could be expected but that he should rave in the most fantastic way, and utter every mad conception and idea that his subjective self contained.
And for me, too; yet there is no denying that conditions have changed, that a multitude of new ills have been introduced into the social organism by the automobile, and except in the deep drifts of winter, the Ford car comes nearer curing those ills than any other anti-toxin yet discovered. But here are the drifts still; and here is the old question of going back to the city to escape them.
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