"
"Then he can't be so very ill."
"Not so acutely, but there are symptoms that make Worth anxious.
Shall I give you a note for Mrs. Fuller?"
"Do, and put me at your disposal for all you can spare for, or I can
do. Have you written to Bindon?"
"I don't know where, within some hundred miles. But, Herbert, I
think we ought to undertake the help that is wanted at Wil'sbro'.
Smith of Duddingstone is too weakly, and poor old Mr. Moulden
neither could nor would. We are the nearest, and having it here
already, do not run the risk of spreading it. As things are, I
cannot be very long away from home, but I would come in for an hour
or so every day, if you could do the rest."
"Yes, that was what I meant," said Herbert.
"Worth says the best protection is never to go among the sick hungry
or exhausted. He says he keeps a biscuit in his pocket to eat
before going into a sick house. I shall make Rosamond keep you
supplied, and you must promise to use them."
"Oh yes, I promise."
"And never drink anything there. There is to be a public meeting
to-morrow, to see whether the cause of this outbreak is not
traceable to the water down there.
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