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186 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."