"
"If it were a question of you alone, I would. But there are others
to be considered. Now, listen, Mr. Brewster: Wisner and Stark
wouldn't let you through that quarantine, after it's declared, if
you were the Secretary himself. A point is being stretched in
giving you this chance. If you'll agree to ship a doctor,--Stark
will find you one,--stay out for six full days before touching
anywhere, and, if plague develops, make at once for any detention
station specified by the doctor, you can go. Those are Stark's
conditions."
"Damnable nonsense!" declared Mr. Brewster, jumping to his feet,
quite red in the face.
"Let me warn you, Mr. Brewster," put in Sherwen, with quiet force,
"that you are taking a most unwise course. I am advised that Mr.
Perkins is acting under instructions from our consulate."
"You say that Dr. Pruyn is here. I want to see him before--"
"How can you see him? Nobody knows where he is keeping himself. I
haven't seen him yet myself. Now, Mr. Brewster, just sit down and
talk this over reasonably with Mr. Perkins."
"Oh, no," said the third conferee positively; "I've no time for
argument.
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