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HARDING OF ST. TIMOTHY'S
The next morning, after breakfast, when they were on their way to chapel, Harry and Joe Herrick stopped at the infirmary to find out how Rupert was.
"He had a rather bad night," the matron said to them. "He has a high temperature and he's very feverish. In fact,—though it's too early to be sure,—we're afraid it's typhoid fever."
