CHAPTER 21
“You can’t be serious! It’s the most preposterous theory I’ve ever heard, Doctor Trent. D’you really think that someone has deliberately infected this village with pneumonic plague, man? That wouldn’t just be foolhardy; it would be tantamount to rank stupidity. How could whoever did such a thing hope to contain an epidemic without possibly infecting the whole country, and what could be their possible motive?”
Angus McKay had stood and listened incredulously as Trent and Hilary Newton had confronted him with Trent’s wild theory about an outside agent being responsible for the outbreak. His reaction had been predictable, his anger and dismissal of the theory being exactly what Trent had expected. Now, Paul Trent would take the matter one step closer to risking an all-out war wit
