“Would it take much time?”
“About four days to a wire.”
She gazed at him in amazement.
“And you were willing to give up four days to carry my message through, ‘unsight—unseen,’ as we children used to say?”
“Willing enough, but not able to. I’d have got a messenger through with it, if necessary. But in four days, there’ll be other obstacles besides the Dutch.”
“Quarantine?”
“Yes.”
“I thought that had to wait for Dr. Pruyn.”
“Pruyn’s here. That’s a secret, Miss Brewster.”
“Do you know everything? Has he found plague?”