CHAPTER XIX.
"I'll see you again," Harry Del Mar told Daughtry, at the end of his fourth conversation on the matter of Michael's sale.
Wherein Harry Del Mar was mistaken.

He never saw Daughtry again, because Daughtry saw Doctor Emory first.
Kwaque's increasing restlessness at night, due to the swelling under his right arm-pit, had began to wake Daughtry up.

After several such experiences, he had investigated and decided that Kwaque was sufficiently sick to require a doctor.

For which reason, one morning at eleven, taking Kwaque along, he called at Walter Merritt Emory's office and waited his turn in the crowded reception-room.
"I think he's got cancer, Doc.," Daughtry said, while Kwaque was pulling off his shirt and undershirt.

"He never squealed, you know, never peeped.