When
she saw him, and he inquired about her clothes, she offered some
trifling excuse, which seemed very readily to satisfy him, for he
made scarcely any reply, and was soon asleep. This time it was her
turn to lie awake, and the morning found her restless, and with every
symptom of a serious illness approaching.
CHAPTER XIII--TO THE GREEKS FOOLISHNESS
Neither Mrs. Coleman nor her husband thought it anything worse than a
feverish cold, and he went to his work. It was a club night, the
night on which the final arrangements for the march were to be made,
and he did not like to be away. His wife was to lie in bed; but a
woman in the house offered to wait upon her and bring what little
food she wanted. It was settled at the club that the Major should
accompany the expedition and Zachariah and Caillaud having drawn
lots, the lot fell upon Caillaud. A last attempt was made to
dissuade the majority from the undertaking; but it had been made
before, not only by our three friends, but by other Lancashire
societies, and had failed. The only effect its renewal had now was a
disagreeable and groundless insinuation which was unendurable. On
his return from the meeting Zachariah was alarmed.
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