"If the Magistrates do their duty, there is no fear that it will spread our way.

There were deaths over yonder of the plague last November, and it seems as though they had not yet stamped out the germs of it.

But a little firmness and sense will do that.

We have nothing to fear.

So long as the cases are duly reported, we shall soon be rid of the pest." Dinah pressed her lips rather closely together.