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"Yes, you are. The future is not in our hands. I can only appeal
to you to help me do what I think is right NOW."
He thought a few moments, took his resolve, then gave her his hand
silently. She understood him without a word.
The news of the officer's return and of his strange condition was
soon generally known in the village; but his parents, aided by the
physician, quickly repressed those inclined to call from mere
curiosity. At first Jim Wetherby scouted the idea that his old
captain would not know him, but later had to admit the fact with a
wonder which no explanations satisfied. Nichol immediately took a
fancy to the one-armed veteran, who was glad to talk by the hour
about soldiers and hospitals.
Before any matured plan for treatment could be adopted Nichol
became ill, and soon passed into the delirium of fever. "The
trouble is now clear enough," Dr. Barnes explained. "The captain
has lived in hospitals and breathed a tainted atmosphere so long
that his system is poisoned. This radical change of air has
developed the disease.


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