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Jan found Alan lying dangerously ill in bed, a doctor and a nurse in close attendance. On the preceding evening he had been seized with a sudden faintness, which proved but a prelude to a long series of swooning fits from which he seemed unable to rally. The doctor explained to Jan that Alan's diseased heart, unable to perfectly fulfil its functions, had suffered a quantity of blood to accumulate in the lungs; which had gradually effused the tissues and now threatened him with suffocation. Three times already had the doctor tapped his lungs and procured him momentary relief. But the evil as constantly recurred, and Alan grew weaker every hour.
"Tell me the worst," said Jan. "Can he recover?"