If Dr. Pruyn
comes here and declares bubonic plague--"
"But how will he get in?" asked Carroll.
"So far as the blockade goes, the Dutch will help him all they
can. But this Government will keep him out, if possible."
"He is not persona grata?" asked Brewster.
"Not with any of the countries that play politics with pestilence.
But if he's sent here, he'll get in some way. In fact, Stark, the
public-health surgeon at Puerto del Norte, let fall a hint that
makes me think he's on his way now. Probably in some cockleshell
of a small boat manned by Indian smugglers."
"It sounds almost too adventurous for the scholarly Pruyn whom I
recall," observed Mr. Brewster.
"The man who went through the cholera anarchy on the lazar island
off Camacho, with one case of medical supplies and two boxes of
cartridges, may have been scholarly; he certainly didn't exhibit
any distaste for adventure. Well, I wish he'd arrive and get
something settled. Only I'd like to have you out of the way
first."
"Oh, don't send ME away, Mr. Sherwen," pleaded Miss Polly, with
mischief in her eyes. "I'd make the cunningest little office
assistant to busy old Dr.
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