11/30 "There be times in a man's life when hours are as days and days as years. But let me see your brother if he be sick. I have some skill in the treatment of fevers, and I have brought in my wallet some simples which we find wonderfully helpful down in the south, from where I come. I doubt not I can bring him relief." Humphrey's face brightened with a look of joyful relief, and Fritz exclaimed heartily: "Yes, yes, Julian is a notable leech. We all come to him with our troubles both of body and mind. |