His father proposed to send him to a medical school at Omaha soon, where he would get hospital practice.
Jack had come in to visit Charlie that afternoon, and as a matter of course he stayed to supper.
Mrs. Fox and her daughter Flora had received him with their usual hospitality, and after the meal the ladies and the two boys had put in a very pleasant evening.
About the time Howard was thinking of mounting his horse to ride back to the farm a fierce thunder and lightning storm had swooped down on the town, and so Jack was easily persuaded to postpone his departure until morning, to Charlie a great satisfaction, for he never tired of the society of his friend.
As soon as Charlie’s sister and mother went upstairs for the night the budding medicus proposed to his chum that they visit the surgery and inspect the corpse.
This gruesome suggestion meeting Jack’s approbation, they put on their hats and made a dash across the garden through the rain.
Charlie lit the surgery lamp and then turned down the sheet which had hidden the body from view.
It was then that Jack made the remark with which this chapter opens.
“Does your mother and sister know that this body is here?” asked Jack.
“No,” replied Charlie, shaking his head.