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CHAPTER XXI
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Harry1 Del Mar2 found only a few white feathers on the floor of Dag Daughtry’s room in the Bowhead Lodging3 House, and from the landlady4 learned what had happened to Michael. The first thing Harry Del Mar did, still retaining his taxi, was to locate the residence of Doctor Emory and make sure that Michael was confined in an outhouse in the back yard. Next he engaged passage on the steamship5 Umatilla, sailing for Seattle and Puget Sound ports at daylight. And next he packed his luggage and paid his bills.
In the meantime, a wordy war was occurring in Walter Merritt Emory’s office.
“The man’s yelling his head off,” Doctor Masters was contending. “The police had to rap him with their clubs in the ambulance. He was violent. He wanted his dog. It can’t be done. It’s too raw. You can’t steal his dog this way. He’ll make a howl in the papers.”
“Huh!” quoth Walter Merritt Emory. “I’d like to see a reporter with backbone6 enough to go within talking distance of a leper in the pest-house. And I’d like to see the editor who wouldn’t send a pest-house letter (granting it’d been smuggled7 past the guards) out to be burned the very second he became aware of its source. Don’t you worry, Doc. There won’t be any noise in the papers.”
“But leprosy! Public health! The dog has been exposed to his master. The dog itself is a peripatetic8 source of infection.”
“Contagion is the better and more technical word, Doc.,” Walter Merritt Emory
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