“Have you never seen any one afflicted as she is?”
“Yes.”
“Why not try the same remedies now that you did then?”
“Because that other patient died.”
“What was the matter with the patient whose symptoms resembled these?”
“Poison.”
The old captain leaped over two chairs, dashing them to the other side of the room, and seizing Plaxico by both shoulders, fairly lifted him off of the floor, letting him down with a slam; then in a thundering tone exclaimed:
“Plaxico, by the great Jupiter, tell me what you mean!”
“I mean what I say.”
“See here, doctor, do you intend to insinuate that one of my passengers has been poisoned?”