"Well, I
suppose I deserve it. You may not believe it, but I can assure you
that ninety-nine out of every hundred medical men would have signed
the certificate in my case."
"I have no doubt of it," I answered. "That is not the matter I want to
discuss with you at all. There is something more serious, terribly
serious, behind all this. Frankly, if I did not know you so well, Rust, I
should offer you the biggest fee you had ever received in your life, to
leave the place this morning and be called to--Timbuctoo. As it is," I
continued more slowly, "I am going to appeal to you as a sportsman! I am
going to take you into my confidence as far as I dare. I want, if I can,
to justify a very extraordinary request."
Rust took off his spectacles and laid them upon the table.
"The request being--" he asked.
"That you start for the holiday you were speaking of the other day," I
said, "within twelve hours."
He glanced at me curiously. I think that he was beginning to wonder
whether I might not be the next person to need medical advice.
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