Quarantine: a Novel
“An old woman named Esther L’Amour gave him a wax- coat and took him to the fire pit behind the laundry vats where, using leather gloves and a pair of long steel tongs, he filled a pushcart with hot stones. She trained him to wrap patients in fresh linen and lay on the stones so that the heat would penetrate certain internal organs. In an hour he was working on his own.
He was walking his empty cart back to the fire pit when he noticed the cloud of dust rising up from the direction of the Frog P...ond. The volunteers working at the laundry vats were all looking in that direction, too, and soon there was a sound that seemed to come from the cloud—voices. Some were chanting, while some merely shouted threats.
Leander left his cart by the fire pit and walked to the fence that enclosed the pest-house—it was over six feet high, but he could climb up on a stack of rocks and see over the top. A hay wagon, surrounded by an angry crowd, approached the gates of the pest-house. There were several men standing in the wagon, all of them with their hands tied together at their waists.MoreLess
He was walking his empty cart back to the fire pit when he noticed the cloud of dust rising up from the direction of the Frog P...ond. The volunteers working at the laundry vats were all looking in that direction, too, and soon there was a sound that seemed to come from the cloud—voices. Some were chanting, while some merely shouted threats.
Leander left his cart by the fire pit and walked to the fence that enclosed the pest-house—it was over six feet high, but he could climb up on a stack of rocks and see over the top. A hay wagon, surrounded by an angry crowd, approached the gates of the pest-house. There were several men standing in the wagon, all of them with their hands tied together at their waists.MoreLess
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