GO would not speak. The workers in the institute were always 

 out, he said, and their laboratories, always closed. It hurried 

 his journey to London where he was received more warmly. 

 The object of his quest there was the Tropical institute and 

 Patrick Manson — another place and another man that in 

 future years and in future talks he was not to forget. 



Wherry arrived in New York late in August (second-class 

 on the Kaiser Wilhelm II) . Miss Nast (now a fourth year 

 medical student) was vacationing on Lake Erie and Wherry 

 stopped off to see her. Whereafter he took train westward to 

 Chicago. Domiciled there with his sister in River Forest, he 

 wrote me: 



I must tell you that as soon as I was able to get a suit of Uncle 

 Sam's clothes in New York, I made a bee-line for Ohio. Marie 

 had me visit her there. Well, I can't tell you everything — 

 can I? But next day we picked water-lilies together and it 

 is all over! ... It was an entirely different thing getting 

 her parents' consent, for they do not consider me religious 

 enough. . . . 



Here was first notice that Miss Nast was now Marie. And 

 as to the last sentence of his letter, this situation was to be 

 reversed a year later when the elder Wherrys were for the first 

 time to meet Marie. It was then that they were to have 

 doubts regarding her basic faiths. 



Wherry's return to the campus of the university of Chicago 

 and to the smoke-laden atmosphere of Rush must have struck 

 him much as a toper's descent from brandy and soda to sar- 

 saparilla. The prodigal had visited strange lands, had seen 

 strange sights, had grayed psychologically in his journeyings. 

 At home, change had moved at slower rate. The place that 

 he had held with Jordan had been filled by another, who, 

 obviously enough could not be pushed out. And the queue 

 under Hektoen was as long as ever. Le Count and Weaver 

 had continued as they were; Wells had moved forward to the 

 South Side; but Ricketts and Rosenow were still present — and 

 only fellows. Wherry's solid contributions to medical science 

 were several, but hidden because in government reports, or, as 

 manuscripts still to come from the press. And anyway, 



