You're sure of the bacillus ?" "An' haven't I been keeping swarms of those very same bacteria under close observation for Sebastian for seven weeks past?
Why, I know them as well as I know me own mother." "Thank you," I said.

"That will do." And I carried off the microscope, bacilli and all, into Hilda Wade's sitting-room.

"Look yourself!" I cried to her.
She stared at them through the instrument with an unmoved face.

"I thought so," she answered shortly.

"The bacillus of pyaemia.