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Paula offered to show Hayley back to the Japanese garden, where Anya and Blake apparently still were, but in her haste the doctor almost left the bodyguard behind. When she practically burst through the gate, Anya looked considerably alarmed, dropping the red checker she’d been about to move.
“What’s the matter?”
“I’ve got it!” Hayley replied, “At least, I think I’ve got it – I’m almost sure – though I’d have to do tests to be certain – but I’d need your permission – if I’m right, well, it’ll be good, but not good, and --”
She stopped, realising she was babbling, and shook her head. “Not the point. Here,” holding out the journal and one of her notebooks, she pointed to the passages she’d read in the lab and a highlighted paragraph from her own notes on Derek’s illness. “You see here, Jonathan is worried about his sister Lavinia’s health; she seems to have reverted back to the tiredness and poor health they came to the island for. And when I treating your husband, you told me he’d been being treated for exhaustion before his fever came on.
“And here, look at the natives’ reaction to Lavinia’s fatigue. They’re alarmed, as if they knew what was coming. Both hers and Derek’s fevers appear overnight, with no prior warning except the tiredness.”
Hayley paused to let what she was saying sink it. “I think this disease goes through more than one stage. It develops so quickly into the raging fever … so I think there must be a dormant stage, where the disease grows within the body. Then the victim presents symptoms of exhaustion, and, finally, the killing fever.
“I’ll have to do blood cultures to be sure, but if I’m right there’s a chance someone may have already contracted the illness.”
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