Black Moon by Seabury Quinn

Author:Seabury Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781597809863
Publisher: Night Shade
Published: 2019-02-04T16:00:00+00:00

CAMILLA LAY UPON THE study sofa much as we had left her, and smiled wanly at us as he hurried into the room. “You did see him, didn’t you?” she asked with something akin to animation in her voice.

“We did, indeed, Mademoiselle,” de Grandin assured her, “and what was much more to the point, he saw us.”

“I knew you must have talked to him and made him relent, for just a little while ago—it couldn’t have been more than ten or fifteen minutes—I had another dreadful attack, and just when I had given up all hope and knew that I was dying it stopped, and I found I could breathe freely again. Now I feel almost well once more. Perhaps”—hope struggled with fear in her eyes—“perhaps I shall recover?”

“Perhaps you shall, indeed, Mademoiselle,” he nodded reassuringly. “Come into the examination room if you will be so kind. It is that we should like to see what we can see.”

It was amazing, but it was true. The most minute examination failed to show a symptom of angina pectoris. There was no area of dullness, no faint suggestion of a heart murmur, and her pulse, though rather light and rapid, was quite steady.

“Accept our most sincere congratulations, Mademoiselle,” de Grandin murmured as he helped her from the table. “It seems you are on the highway to complete recovery.”

“Oh!” her exclamation was a small, sad sound, and there was an enmeshed, desperate look in her eyes. “Rick! If I get well, he’ll—”

De Grandin made a little deprecating sound with his tongue against his teeth. “It may be even as you say, ma chère. I would not give you the false hope. Again, it may be quite otherwise. Have you courage to go with us to the hospital and see?”

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