"Is she still in love with him?"
"Terribly."
"I'll do my best."
At the James house they found Dr. Osterhout. Pat went up to Dee after bidding Cary come to the Knoll directly after dinner. Going out with the physician he asked how serious James's case really was.
"As serious as it could possibly be," was the grim reply. "He'll live."
"Then Pat was right. He'll never be any better?"
"Not much. A paralytic. With a good deal of suffering."
"Can't you help him die?" muttered Scott.
The medical man turned an uncompromising look upon the other. "When I acquire the wisdom of Deity, then I'll assume the prerogatives of Deity. Not before."