They brought Father Phillip Burt to St. Luke's as our "share" of the research project on the mysterious disease which afflicted most of the crew of the recently returned Phoenix Nebula expedition. News of the disease, of course, was not spread beyond the research teams, as the public seems to fear a plague worse than damnation itself.

And it didn't seem to be a very serious disease: Father Phillip was easily the worst case of all; and although several of the expedition had died, their deaths could be evaluated as due to secondary infections of common enough earth origin. Very few of the crew were in actual pain; but Father Phillip was in constant agony which no amount of sedation seemed to calm.

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