He has a draught to take in case of necessity."
I turned back to the house with a sigh. I am afraid that I had as little
faith in medicine as Guest himself.
CHAPTER XIV
GATHERING JACKALS
Guest for the remainder of the morning seemed to have fallen into a sort
of stupor. He declined to sit in the garden or come down to lunch.
When I went up to his room, he was lying upon a couch, half undressed,
and with a dressing-gown wrapped around him. He opened his eyes when I
came in, but waved me away.
"I am thinking," he said. "Don't interrupt me; I want to be alone for an
hour or so."
"But you must have something to eat," I insisted. "You will lose your
strength if you don't."
"Quite right," he admitted. "Send me up some soup, and let me have pencil
and paper."
He was supplied with both. When I went up an hour later, he was smoking a
cigarette and writing.
"I do not wish," he said, "to be worried with any more doctors. It is
only a farce, and I have little time to spare."
"Nonsense!" I answered. "Rust declares that there is very little the
matter with you.
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