school alfred had contracted it gone to and there died you know in the old days explained there was no certain test for anything unusual or was sufficient to send a fellow to the result was that were sent there who were no more than you or i but they don t make that mistake now the board of health are the funny thing is that when the test was discovered they immediately went down to and applied it and they found a number who were not these were immediately happy to get away they harder at leaving the settlement than when they left to go to it some refused to leave and good by jack really had to be forced out one of them even married a woman in the last stages and then wrote pathetic letters to the board of health protesting against his on the ground that no one was so well able as he to take care of his poor old wife what is this test i demanded the test there is no getting away from it doctor � he s our expert you know � was the first man to apply it here he is a he knows more about than any living man and if a cure is ever discovered he ll be that as for the test it is very simple they have succeeded in the and studying it they know it now when they see it all they do is to h p good by jack a bit of skin from the suspect and subject it to the test a man without any visible symptoms may be full of the then you or i for all we know i suggested may be full of it now shrugged his shoulders and laughed who can say it takes seven years for it to if you have any doubts go and see doctor he ll just out a piece of your skin and let you know in a later on he introduced me to dr who loaded me down with board of health reports and on the subject and took me out to the receiving station where were examined and confirmed good by jack were held for to these occurred about once a month when the last good said the were marched on board the little steamer the and carried down to the settlement one afternoon writing letters at the club jack dropped in on me just the man i want to see was his greeting i ll show you the aspect of the whole situation � the wailing as they depart for the will be taking them on board in a few minutes but let me warn you not to let your feelings be real as their grief is they d wail a whole sight harder a year hence if the board of health tried to take them away from we ve just time for a and i ve a carriage outside it no good by jack won t take us five minutes to get down to the wharf to the wharf we drove some forty sad wretches amid their blankets and luggage of various sorts were on the piece the had just arrived and was making fast to a lighter that lay between her and the wharf a mr the of the settlement was the and to him i was introduced also to dr one of the board of health whom i had already met at the were a lot the faces of the majority were hideous � too horrible for me to describe but here and there i noticed fairly good looking persons with no apparent signs of the fell disease upon them one i noticed a little white good by jack in girl not more than twelve with blue eyes and golden hair one cheek however showed the on my remarking upon the sadness of her alien situation among the brown afflicted ones doctor replied � oh i don t know it s a happy day in her life she comes from her father is a brute and now that she has developed the disease she is going to join her mother at the settlement her mother was sent down three years ago � a very bad case you can t always tell from appearances mr explained that man there that big chap who looks the pink of condition with nothing the matter with him i happen to know has a in his foot and another in his shoulder blade then there are good by jack others � there see that girl s hand the one who is smoking the see her twisted fingers that s the form it attacks the nerves you could cut her fingers off with a dull knife or rub them off on a and she would not experience the slightest sensation yes but that fine looking woman there i persisted surely surely there can t be anything the matter with her she is too glorious and gorgeous altogether a sad case mr answered over his shoulder already turning away to walk down the wharf with she was a beautiful woman and she was pure from my meagre knowledge of the race and its types i could not but conclude that she had u good by jack descended from old chief stock she could not have been more than or four her lines and proportions were magnificent and she was just beginning to show the of the women of her race it was a blow to all of us dr volunteered she gave herself up voluntarily too no one suspected but somehow she had contracted the disease it broke us all up i assure you kept it out of the papers though nobody but us and her family knows what has become of her in fact if you were to ask any man in he d tell you it was his impression that she was somewhere in 