Is there anything else you want ?" "You--you didn't-- ?" The doctor shook his head.

"Very sorry," he said, "but there wasn't a thing could be done." "Where is he ?" she asked in a whisper.
"His people took him home immediately after the Coroner's inquest, which found that he died from heart failure, brought on by his long walk in the heat." Kate stared at him with a face pitiful to behold.
"You let him think THAT ?" she whispered again.
"I did," said the old doctor.

"I thought, and still think, that for the sake of you and yours," he waved toward the bundle, "it was the only course to pursue." "Thank you," said Kate.

"You're very kind.

But don't you think that I and mine are going to take a lot of shielding?
The next man may not be so kindly disposed.