Chapter 21
Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344 Colonel Preston, returning from a trip to Boston, in which, probably, he had been unconsciously exposed to the terrible disease referred to, was taken sick, and his wife, wholly unsuspicious of her husband's malady, sent for the doctor. The latter examined his patient and, on leaving the sick-chamber, beckoned Mrs. Preston to follow him. "What is the matter with him, doctor?" asked Mrs. Preston. The physician looked grave. "I regret to say, Mrs. Preston, that he has the smallpox." "The smallpox!" almost shrieked Mrs. Preston. "Oh! what will become of me?" Dr. Townley was rather disgusted to find her first tho
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