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Updated: July 20, 2025
The doctor turned on Farr. "Father?" "No." "Then I can talk right out to you two. This is a case of typhoid that will be fatal in twenty-four hours. There's no use lying about it." Old Etienne's mouth and eyes seemed to sink deep into his wrinkles, as if Time had forced him suddenly to swallow an extra score of years. He looked at Farr's blank and whitening face, and as quickly looked away.
The newspaper man, his suspicions dulled by Farr's radiant good nature and wholesome frankness, went away about his business, but he halted long enough beside Dodd's chair to repeat "the corn-grower's" joke regarding the young man who had been glowering on him. Dodd got up with as much alacrity as he could command and went across to Farr.
If there was a bit of sarcasm in Farr's tone the Quaker paid no apparent heed. "No," he said, quietly and meekly, "this is a brace for the leg of a little lame boy. I have found many children in this city who cannot walk. Their parents are too poor to buy braces. So I come here nights, when the good man is away from the forge, and I make braces and carry them with my blessing.
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