6/17 "The added help that you fellows have given us has enabled us to double our rush forward. I've a notion that President Newnham is a man of great common sense." "How are the sick men this morning," inquired Harry. "Is either one of them fit to talk with the president ?" "Doc Gitney says he won't allow any caller within a thousand feet of his patients," Tom smiled. "And Doc seems to be a man of his word." Both Mr.Thurston and Mr.Blaisdell were now weakly conscious, in a half-dazed sort of way. Their cases were progressing favorably on the whole, though it would be weeks ere either would be fit to take charge of affairs. |