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And yes Doc Strowbridge knew it. He was the federal physician, and he had developed the leper eye. You see, part of his business was to examine suspects and order them to the receiving station at Honolulu. And Stephen Kaluna had developed the leper eye. The disease ran strong in his family, and four or five of his relatives were already on Molokai. "The trouble arose over Stephen Kaluna's sister.
'What could I do? Doc asked me. 'I knew he had it. I had seen it coming on for months. I couldn't answer him. I couldn't say yes. I don't mind telling you I broke down and cried. He pleaded for the bacteriological test. 'Snip out a piece, Doc, he said, over and over. 'Snip out a piece of skin and make the test." "The way Doc Strowbridge cried must have convinced Lyte.
The very shoulders under the heavy laces caught a plaintive droop, learned in no role of Marguerite in any land. The red rose at her hair the rose got from some mysterious source half trembled. Fear, a great fear the first stage fright known in years swept over Alice Strowbridge, late artist, and now woman.
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