“Too quick, too quick,” frowned the professor. “I know Dr. Monk had his own special ways, but I cannot ever obtain a definite culture of the bacilli under five days.” He smiled. “No, Mr. Larose, if, as you tell me, this patient is in perfect health and without blemish to-day, then, speaking off-hand, I should say he had never had true leprosy.”
Bidding good-bye to the professor, Larose was certainly rather upset with the information he had just received, for, if Hardacre were now quite leprosy free, he might easily deny he had ever consulted Dr. Monk, and that he had might be impossible to prove. In that event, no reason could be put forward why he should have had any animus against the doctor and wished him harm. The whole case then might seem to fall through.
Still, Larose comforted hi
