Well, Chips has a cold, and a cold can be quite a serious thing for a young fellow of eighty-three.Old schoolmaster ""Chips"" was ordered to stay at home by the school""s doctor, "but it was quite a battle.She misses, causing him to calmly respond:You""re losing your eye.You used to be able to pitch better than that.To entice her to stay as one of the paper""s few quality writers/reporters that has enough smarts to cover the Earl Williams case, he pretends that his only other writer capable of doing the job, Sweeney, is at the hospital tending to his wife having a baby: "Everything happens to me.He saw the "ghost" of Dr.Nekhorvich [Ethan Hunt in disguise] approach his bed and inform him: "You are infected with Chimera." The CEO learned he had less than a day to live, similar to Gradski who had been deliberately infected.It is a sign that a group of hostile Indians have attacked and slain the pioneers, thereby shedding their blood.