On the fourth day an attack of fever set in.
"You must stop the ipecacuanha, now," Mr.Goodenough said, "and Frank, send Ostik round to the Germans, and say I wish them to come here at once." When these arrived Mr.Goodenough asked Frank to leave him alone with them.

A quarter of an hour later they went out, and Frank, returning, found two sealed envelopes on the table beside him.
"My boy," he said, "I have been making my will.

I fear that it is all over with me.

Fever and dysentery together are in nine cases out of ten fatal.

Don't cry, Frank," he said, as the lad burst into tears.