Then, "You're wrong, sir," the Colonel said. "Billy

shan't

die. Damn

Jukesbury! Damn all doctors, too, sir! I put my trust in my God, sir,

and not in a box of damn' sugar-pills, sir. And I tell you, sir,

that
boy is not going to die

."

Afterward he turned and went into Selwoode defiantly.

[XXVIII]

In the living-hall the Colonel found Margaret, white as paper, with