The boy is just at a turning-point.

Any little thing might set him one way or the other.

I wish I could send him away from this damp lake climate." But sending a half-sick boy away is not such an easy thing, nor was it quite clear where he ought to go.

So matters drifted along for another month, and then Phil settled the question for himself by having a slight hemorrhage.

It was evident that something must be done, and speedily--but what?
Dr.Carr wrote to various medical acquaintances, and in reply pamphlets and letters poured in, each designed to prove that the particular part of the country to which the pamphlet or the letter referred was the only one to which it was at all worth while to consign an invalid with delicate lungs.