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"I have followed you to apologise, Miss Therne," he said; "of course I had no idea who you were and did not wish to hurt your feelings, but I happen to have strong feelings about vaccination and spoke more roughly than I ought to have done." "Other people, sir, may also have strong opinions about vaccination," answered Jane.
It is almost impossible that Dr. Therne can have polled twenty-nine votes in succession. On behalf of Sir Thomas Colford, I demand a recount." "Certainly," answered some official, "let it be begun at once."
"I know," he said, "and I know, too, what the end of it all will be, as you will also, Miss Therne, if you live long enough. It is useless arguing, the lists are closed and we must wait until the thing is put to the proof of battle. When it is, one thing is sure, there will be plenty of dead," he added with a grim smile.
Whilst I was wondering how to arrange matters I chanced to meet Sir John Bell in consultation. After our business was over, developing an unusual geniality of manner, he proposed to walk a little way with me. "I understand, my dear Therne," he said, "that there is an interesting event expected in your family." I replied that this was so.
"That is a most improper verdict," broke in the judge with irritation, "for it acquits the accused and yet implies that he is guilty. Dr. Therne, you are discharged. I repeat that I regret that the jury should have thought fit to add a very uncalled-for rider to their verdict." I left the dock and pushed my way through the crowd. Outside the court-house I came face to face with Sir Thomas Colford.
My grandfather, Thomas Therne, whose name still lives in medicine, was a doctor in the neighbourhood of Dunchester, and my father succeeded to his practice and nothing else, for the old gentleman had lived beyond his means.
"She say," broke in Antonio, "nearly quarter people dead and plenty sick." "For Heaven's sake, let us get out of this," I said to Emma, who, seated on the other mule, was staring horror-struck at the sight. "Oh!" she said, "you are a doctor; can't you help the poor things?" "What! and leave you to shift for yourself?" "Never mind me, Dr. Therne.
The judge having returned to his seat on the bench, in the midst of the most intense silence the clerk asked the jury whether they found the prisoner guilty or not guilty. Rising to his feet, the foreman, a dapper little man with a rapid utterance, said, or rather read from a piece of paper, "Not guilty, but we hope that in future Dr. Therne will be more careful about conveying infection."
To this letter I received a reply by hand, scrawled upon half a sheet of notepaper. It ran: "Sir Thomas Colford is surprised that Dr. Therne should think it worth while to add falsehood to murder." Then, for the first time, I understood in what light my terrible misfortune was regarded by the public.
The rest of that scene has nothing to do with the world; it has nothing to do with me; it is a private matter between two people who are dead, Ernest Merchison and my daughter, Jane Therne. Although my own beliefs are nebulous, and at times non-existent, this was not so in my daughter's case.
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