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