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asked Quincy . `` No , '' said ` Zekiel , `` but the Boston doctor wrote to Deacon Mason that he was comin ' down this afternoon to take that stuff off Huldy 's arm , and she wanted me to come up , so I shall be up there all the afternoon . '' `` That reminds me , '' said Quincy . `` Will you tell Deacon Mason that I want the nurse to stay until to-morrow and I will be up to see her at nine o'clock ? '' Quincy took up the reins and started for Eastborough Poorhouse . He found his uncle weaker than on the day before . Quincy touched his hand , but did not lift it from the bed .