Don't you, Doctor Gys ?" The one good eye of Gys had a queer way of twinkling when he was amused.
It twinkled as the girl asked this question.
"Morphine," he replied, "has destroyed more people than it has saved.
You play with fire when you feed it to anyone, under any circumstances.
Nevertheless, I believe in its value on an expedition of this sort, and that is why I loaded up on the stuff.

Let me advise you never to tell a patient that we are administering morphine.

The result is all that he is concerned with and it is better he should not know what has relieved him." On a sunny day when the sea was calm they slung a scaffold over the bow and painted a big red cross on either side of the white ship.

Everyone aboard wore the Red Cross emblem on an arm band, even the sailors being so decorated.

Uncle John was very proud of the insignia and loved to watch his girls moving around the deck in their sober uniforms and white caps.
Jones endured the voyage splendidly and by this time had convinced himself that he was not again to be subject to the mal-de-mer of his first ocean trip.