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`` Ai n't there -- ai n't there no chance , Doctor ? '' gasped the Captain . `` Certainly , there 's a chance . If I could administer antitoxin by to-morrow noon the patient might recover . What time does the morning train from Boston arrive here ? '' `` Ha ` f-past ten or thereabouts . '' Dr. Morgan took his notebook from his pocket and wrote a few lines in pencil on one of the pages .