His Other Wife: A Novel — page 73: what you’re looking at

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THE INDIAN’S PATIENT. 65 CHAPTER: VI; THE INDIANS PATIENT. ‘‘ Really, sir, I have every wish to oblige you, but I do not feel at all sure, that I have any right to open the coffin of Mr. Croft’s wife, simply to satisfy the con of a stranger, ” These words were spoken by the keeper of the cemetery, to whom a dark man had made a request to be allowed a sight of the corpse in the chapel awaiting burial. ‘‘T respect your feelings, Mr. Manton; but when I inform you that 1am one of the officers of the Board of Health, and that I have reason to suspect in Mrs. Croft’s case the presence of an epidemic disease, which I must ascertain in order to set forward proper precautionary measures against its spreading in the city, I think your Bese HOR will yield to that argument. Here are my papers.” F ‘* Of course, sir, Te nothing more to urge acetic it— only, if you think there may be contagion from the dead body, I would thank you much to excuse me from opening the coffin. I’ve a large family, sir, and may convey the bad air in my clothing.” : The dark man smiled; here was a Bbance. he had nag counted on. He said, carelessly : i , EComichoo CS: 3 1€O