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"Matiss will draw up the deed, and I will take you round and
introduce you as my partner. But there need not be anything said
beforehand. Neither need there be anything said at all about my going
away, until I actually go. You will oblige me in this, Mr. Jan."
"It's all the same to me," said accommodating Jan. "Whose will be this
room, then?"
"Yours, to do as you please with, of course, so long as I am away."
"I'll have a turn-up bedstead put in it and sleep here, then," quoth
Jan. "When folks come in the night, and ring me up, I shall be handy.
It'll be better than disturbing the house, as is the case now."
The doctor appeared struck with the proposition.
"I think it would be a very good plan, indeed," he said. "I don't fancy
the room's damp."
"Not it," said Jan. "If it were damp, it wouldn't hurt me. I have no
time to be ill, I haven't. Damp--Who's that?"
It was a visitor to the surgery--a patient of Dr. West's--and, for the
time, the conference was broken up, not to be renewed until evening.
Dr. West and Jan were both fully occupied all the afternoon.


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