While the Governor was undressing and getting ready for bed, a hearse drove up to the laboratory, but from the location of the building, the hearse was also immediately at the foot of the broad flight of steps leading to the Bishop’s house. The Governor was naturally much depressed at the turn affairs seemed to be taking. Evening was drawing on, and the sun was sinking to rest. He knew from the history of yellow fever that many a poor fellow who had gone to bed as he was doing had not lived to see the sun rise again. So he made up his mind that he would take one more look at the sun, the trees and the outside world before he turned in. He went to the window, drew aside the curtains and looked out, and there at the foot of the steps, right at his front door, stood the hearse. With a groan he turned to his bed, sure now that Major La Garde regarded the case as one of those short and fatal ones, and had ordered the hearse so that it would be on hand and convenient when the Governor had need of it. But I am glad to say that the Governor was all right next morning, and the hearse had been ordered not for the Governor, but for some poor fellow in the morgue at the laboratory. This is not my story, but the Governor’s, and I wish I could tell it in the inimitable way I have many times heard it from him. As stated previously, any sick employee was cared for in Ancon Hospital, or any other Department hospital, free of charge. If he were on the gold roll, he was allowed pay for thirty days’ sickness in each year. The gold roll practically meant white Americans, of whom there were about five thousand. The families of employees receiving more than fifty dollars per month were charged one dollar a day for treatment in the wards. If they asked for special consideration, such as private rooms, or private nurses, they were charged accordingly. No charge was made for surgical operations on members of the families of employees. If the employee received less than fifty dollars a month, a member of his family was charged only thirty cents a day in the hospital. Any person not an employee was charged two dollars per day for ordinary treatment in wards, and an additional charge for all extras, such as private rooms, special nurses, etc. On October 31, 1913, we had in our hospitals three hundred and twenty-nine white employees, four hundred and forty-five negro employees, one hundred and ninety-nine white non-employee pay patients, and four hundred and fifty-six black non-employee pay patients. The income of the Department from all sources during the calendar year of 1913 was about $250,000. This came principally from persons cared for in the hospitals. CHAPTER XVIII THE SANITARIUM AT TABOGA