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"
Yet
in
those
few
minutes
I
remained
with
the
dying
woman
in
my
classroom
,
the
alarm
had
spread
over
the
university
;
and
the
students
,
by
thousands
,
all
of
them
,
had
deserted
the
lecture-room
and
laboratories
.
When
I
emerged
,
on
my
way
to
make
report
to
the
President
of
the
Faculty
,
I
found
the
university
deserted
.
Across
the
campus
were
several
stragglers
hurrying
for
their
homes
.
Two
of
them
were
running
.
"
President
Hoag
,
I
found
in
his
office
,
all
alone
,
looking
very
old
and
very
gray
,
with
a
multitude
of
wrinkles
in
his
face
that
I
had
never
seen
before
.
At
the
sight
of
me
,
he
pulled
himself
to
his
feet
and
tottered
away
to
the
inner
office
,
banging
the
door
after
him
and
locking
it
.
You
see
,
he
knew
I
had
been
exposed
,
and
he
was
afraid
.
He
shouted
to
me
through
the
door
to
go
away
.
I
shall
never
forget
my
feelings
as
I
walked
down
the
silent
corridors
and
out
across
that
deserted
campus
.
I
was
not
afraid
.
I
had
been
exposed
,
and
I
looked
upon
myself
as
already
dead
.
It
was
not
that
,
but
a
feeling
of
awful
depression
that
impressed
me
.
Everything
had
stopped
.
It
was
like
the
end
of
the
world
to
me
--
my
world
.
I
had
been
born
within
sight
and
sound
of
the
university
.
It
had
been
my
predestined
career
.
My
father
had
been
a
professor
there
before
me
,
and
his
father
before
him
.
For
a
century
and
a
half
had
this
university
,
like
a
splendid
machine
,
been
running
steadily
on
.
And
now
,
in
an
instant
,
it
had
stopped
.
It
was
like
seeing
the
sacred
flame
die
down
on
some
thrice-sacred
altar
.
I
was
shocked
,
unutterably
shocked
.
"
When
I
arrived
home
,
my
housekeeper
screamed
as
I
entered
,
and
fled
away
.
And
when
I
rang
,
I
found
the
housemaid
had
likewise
fled
.
I
investigated
.
In
the
kitchen
I
found
the
cook
on
the
point
of
departure
.
But
she
screamed
,
too
,
and
in
her
haste
dropped
a
suitcase
of
her
personal
belongings
and
ran
out
of
the
house
and
across
the
grounds
,
still
screaming
.
I
can
hear
her
scream
to
this
day
.
You
see
,
we
did
not
act
in
this
way
when
ordinary
diseases
smote
us
.
We
were
always
calm
over
such
things
,
and
sent
for
the
doctors
and
nurses
who
knew
just
what
to
do
.
But
this
was
different
.
It
struck
so
suddenly
,
and
killed
so
swiftly
,
and
never
missed
a
stroke
.
When
the
scarlet
rash
appeared
on
a
person
's
face
,
that
person
was
marked
by
death
.
There
was
never
a
known
case
of
a
recovery
.
"
I
was
alone
in
my
big
house
.
As
I
have
told
you
often
before
,
in
those
days
we
could
talk
with
one
another
over
wires
or
through
the
air
.
The
telephone
bell
rang
,
and
I
found
my
brother
talking
to
me
.
He
told
me
that
he
was
not
coming
home
for
fear
of
catching
the
plague
from
me
,
and
that
he
had
taken
our
two
sisters
to
stop
at
Professor
Bacon
's
home
.
He
advised
me
to
remain
where
I
was
,
and
wait
to
find
out
whether
or
not
I
had
caught
the
plague
.
"
To
all
of
this
I
agreed
,
staying
in
my
house
and
for
the
first
time
in
my
life
attempting
to
cook
.
And
the
plague
did
not
come
out
on
me
.
By
means
of
the
telephone
I
could
talk
with
whomsoever
I
pleased
and
get
the
news
.
Also
,
there
were
the
newspapers
,
and
I
ordered
all
of
them
to
be
thrown
up
to
my
door
so
that
I
could
know
what
was
happening
with
the
rest
of
the
world
.
"
New
York
City
and
Chicago
were
in
chaos
.
And
what
happened
with
them
was
happening
in
all
the
large
cities
.
A
third
of
the
New
York
police
were
dead
.
Their
chief
was
also
dead
,
likewise
the
mayor
.
All
law
and
order
had
ceased
.
The
bodies
were
lying
in
the
streets
un-buried
.
All
railroads
and
vessels
carrying
food
and
such
things
into
the
great
city
had
ceased
runnings
and
mobs
of
the
hungry
poor
were
pillaging
the
stores
and
warehouses
.
Murder
and
robbery
and
drunkenness
were
everywhere
.
Already
the
people
had
fled
from
the
city
by
millions
--
at
first
the
rich
,
in
their
private
motor-cars
and
dirigibles
,
and
then
the
great
mass
of
the
population
,
on
foot
,
carrying
the
plague
with
them
,
themselves
starving
and
pillaging
the
farmers
and
all
the
towns
and
villages
on
the
way
.
"
The
man
who
sent
this
news
,
the
wireless
operator
,
was
alone
with
his
instrument
on
the
top
of
a
lofty
building
.
The
people
remaining
in
the
city
--
he
estimated
them
at
several
hundred
thousand
--
had
gone
mad
from
fear
and
drink
,
and
on
all
sides
of
him
great
fires
were
raging
.
He
was
a
hero
,
that
man
who
staid
by
his
post
--
an
obscure
newspaperman
,
most
likely
.
"
For
twenty-four
hours
,
he
said
,
no
transatlantic
airships
had
arrived
,
and
no
more
messages
were
coming
from
England
.
He
did
state
,
though
,
that
a
message
from
Berlin
--
that
's
in
Germany
--
announced
that
Hoffmeyer
,
a
bacteriologist
of
the
Metchnikoff
School
,
had
discovered
the
serum
for
the
plague
.
That
was
the
last
word
,
to
this
day
,
that
we
of
America
ever
received
from
Europe
.
If
Hoffmeyer
discovered
the
serum
,
it
was
too
late
,
or
otherwise
,
long
ere
this
,
explorers
from
Europe
would
have
come
looking
for
us
.
We
can
only
conclude
that
what
happened
in
America
happened
in
Europe
,
and
that
,
at
the
best
,
some
several
score
may
have
survived
the
Scarlet
Death
on
that
whole
continent
.
"
For
one
day
longer
the
despatches
continued
to
come
from
New
York
.
Then
they
,
too
,
ceased
.
The
man
who
had
sent
them
,
perched
in
his
lofty
building
,
had
either
died
of
the
plague
or
been
consumed
in
the
great
conflagrations
he
had
described
as
raging
around
him
.
And
what
had
occurred
in
New
York
had
been
duplicated
in
all
the
other
cities
.
It
was
the
same
in
San
Francisco
,
and
Oakland
,
and
Berkeley
.
By
Thursday
the
people
were
dying
so
rapidly
that
their
corpses
could
not
be
handled
,
and
dead
bodies
lay
everywhere
.
