Found your father very weak and feverish and coughing continually. Insists on getting home immediately. Says to inform Dr. Kemp, who will understand, and have him at the house on our arrival at 11.30 Thursday. No present danger.
LOUIS ARNOLD
“Explain,” commanded her mother, speaking in her overwrought condition as if to a stranger.
“Get into bed first, Mamma, or you will take cold.”
Mrs. Levice suffered herself to be led there, and in a few words Ruth explained what she knew.
“You knew that yesterday before the train left?”
“Yes, Mamma.”
“And why didn’t you tell me? I should have gone to him. Oh, why didn’t you tell me?”
“It would have been too late, dear.”
“No, it is too late now; do you hear? I shall never see him again, and it is all your fault—what do you know? Stop crying! will you stop crying, or—”