All In Her Hands – Audrey Blake

Daniel asked. Harry rolled his eyes. “You’ve not spent much time in Glasgow, I take it.” He grunted out the sarcastic words as Sam writhed beneath his grip. “Two days of no liquor. And now an attack of shaking, puking, and hallucinations. It’s delirium tremens. Got to be. He needs a weak draft.” “Not just vomiting,” the wife interrupted timidly.

“He’s been running from the other end since last night.” Daniel’s grip loosened slightly. “Diarrhea?” Healey flailed. “Don’t let him move,” Harry snapped. The wife nodded. “I can’t keep him clean, but he’s passing…well, it’s scarcely more than water now.” Daniel traded glances with Harry, but Harry spoke first. “His color. Look.” There was no window, and the paltry lamplight made it difficult to distinguish colors, but Harry was right. Sam’s skin bore a strange gray tint. “When’s the last time he ate or drank?”

Daniel asked. “I gave him stew an hour ago, but it all came up and out again.” As she spoke, the struggling man whimpered and went limp at last. Harry released him, smoothing down his crumpled jacket. “Keep still, now. We don’t want any trouble.” Though his voice was calm, Daniel recognized fear in the man’s eyes as he bent close, searching inside his open bag.

“Think it’s a double diagnosis?” Harry whispered. Delirium tremens and cholera at the same time? Daniel exhaled in a sharp burst, desperate to believe this was all caused by hunger and a lack of alcohol. But he couldn’t tell, and they needed to know for certain. “Show me his chamber pot.” As Harry made to move toward the wife, Sam Healey turned his head, face twisting into submission in a grotesque smile.

“Are you taking bets? Half a crown on Voltaire.” He reached up and pushed the wooden spoon against Harry’s coat. “Dear Lord, he’s at the races now,” Mrs. Healey moaned. “He’s not usually like this,” she promised. “He drinks away his wages, but he’s never deranged.” Daniel studied the man, imagining his face calm instead of wearing this mask of mania. “We can’t allow him to get agitated again,” Harry muttered. “After two nights of no sleep, his heart might give out.”

“If he won’t sleep on his own, we’ll have to make him.” Daniel looked at Harry’s bag. “You carry chloroform, don’t you?” Harry nodded. “Just a bottle. I don’t drag the whole vaporizer about.

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The house was quiet. Nora let out a sigh and plucked at the linen rag covering her chest.

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