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Updated: June 16, 2025
The aged coachman, who knew his duty, did not wait for orders, but turned immediately away from the station, and drove off just as the train started again on its way to Paris. They entered a country road running through a wood a pleasant ride, if Salome could have enjoyed it but she leaned back on her cushions, with closed eyes, fever-flushed cheeks, and fainting frame.
"He thinks she is his wife," the Captain said, very sadly; "poor boy!" The Doctor turned up the lamp, and looked long and earnestly into the fever-flushed face. His own seemed to have caught the reflection of that red glow, when at last he looked up. "It is the fever," he said, "and a very serious case. You sat up last night, your father tells me, Miss Kate?" "Yes," Kate answered.
Curiously, apprehensively, they studied the fever-flushed face of the delirious girl. "Purty, ain't she?" Jerry whispered. Tom nodded. "She's sick, all right, too," he said in a similar tone; then, after a moment: "I've been thinking about them lemons. We're getting about a hundred dollars a dozen for 'em. Kind of a rotten trick, under the circumstances.
He counted the marks on the door and found that there were sixteen. Just that many days ago Billy had set off with the dogs. If all had gone well he was a third of the way back, and within another week would be "home." Pelliter's thin, fever-flushed face relaxed into a wan smile as he counted the pencil marks again. Long before that week was ended he figured that he would be dead.
Then Nicolas stopped short, gazing wonderingly at the fever-flushed face of the stranger. "He's a puzzle," remarked Harry, four days later. "Meaning our sick man?" "Of course. But he isn't going to be a sick man much longer, thanks to you, Tom. You were born to be a physician." "Don't you believe it," smiled Reade.
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