`` I 'll nurse him myself . I 'm not afraid and I 'm well and strong . '' `` Very well . You 've been vaccinated lately ? '' `` Yes . '' `` Well , nothing more can be done at present . You may as well lie down for a while and save your strength . '' But Eunice could not do that . There was too much to attend to . She went out to the hall and threw up the window . Down below , at a safe distance , Charles Holland was waiting . The cold wind blew up to Eunice the odor of the disinfectants with which he had steeped himself . `` What does the doctor say ? '' he shouted . `` He thinks it 's the smallpox . Have you sent word to Victoria ? '' `` Yes , Jim Blewett drove into town and told her . She 'll stay with her sister till it is over . Of course it 's the best thing for her to do . She 's terribly frightened . ''
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