"
"What has took you now?" sharply demanded Mrs. Duff, partly in
curiosity, partly in wrath.
"I see'd a dead man," responded Dan, and he forthwith fell into
convulsions.
They shook him, they pulled him, they pinched him. One laid hold of his
head, another of his feet; but, make nothing of him, could they. The
boy's face was white, his hands and arms were twitching, and froth was
gathering on his lips. By this time the shop was full.
"Run across, one of you," cried the mother, turning her face to the
crowd, "and see if you can find Mr. Jan Verner."
CHAPTER XLIX.
"I SEE'D A DEAD MAN!"
Jan Verner was turning in at his own door--the surgery--at a swinging
pace. Jan's natural pace was a deliberate one; but Jan found so much to
do, now he was alone in the business, that he had no resource but to
move at the rate of a steam engine. Otherwise he would never have got
through his day's work. Jan had tried one assistant, who had proved to
be more plague than profit, and Jan was better without him. Master
Cheese, promoted now to tail-coats and turn-up collars, was coming on,
and could attend to trifling cases.
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