Is it fair to shut up a
discovery that might benefit so many people."
"It is not his fault, Janet, that it is shut up. He talked of it to
several of the most able men he was connected with, and they thought
it a chimera. He could not carry it on far enough to convince them.
I do not know what he would have done if his illness had been longer,
or he could have talked it out with any one, but I know the proof
could only be made out by a course of experiments which he could not
commit to any one not highly qualified, or whom he could not entirely
trust. It is not a thing to be set forth broadcast, while it might
yet prove a fallacy."
"Is it to be lost for ever, then?"
"I shall try to find light as to the right thing to be done about
it."
"Well," said Janet, drawing a long breath, "three years of study must
come, any way, and by that time I may be able to triumph over
prejudice."
There was no time to reply, for at that moment the letters of the
second delivery were brought in; and the first that Caroline opened
told her that the cold which Armine had mentioned on Saturday seemed
to be developing into an attack of a rather severe hybrid kind of
illness, between measles and scarlatina, from which many persons had
lately been suffering.
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