on more than an hour.'
"I looked at her foot. There was a big red patch on the instep. But it wasn't sore, and I told her the tea
couldn't have been very hot.
"'But it was really scalded, Job,' she said. 'I mean it was blistered.'
"She sat looking at the bandage and at her foot for quite a while. The salve was bluish and had a queer
shine to it. I never saw anything like it before. No, I couldn't detect any odor to it. Harriet reached down
and took the bandage and said:
"'Job, throw it in the fire.'
"I threw the bandage in the fire. I remember that it gave a queer sort of flicker. It didn't seem to burn. It
just flickered and then it wasn't there. Harriet watched it, and turned sort of white. Then she looked at