The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-29
doctor has said nothing to me about a
| visitor at this bour of tim NIGHT

lie returned, tUVdnclDg, ana LahiDg
seat on the sofa opposite Inc. where for
? few moments he sat and eyed NE
keenly from head to foot with stran,e
, glittering light in his eyes that myster-
iously impressed me. You have a re-
markbly fine physique, madam. he oh
: served, quietly 'one that might deceive
the most skilled and practical physi-
clan. Do you suffer much pain.
"Unable to speak, / shook my head.
A terrible suspician was creeping over
NE. / was alone-miles away from
aid or rescue-with mailman
"Ah,' he continued, reflectively,
your husband may have mistaken q
tuner for a cancer. Allow me to feel
your pulse, he said, rising and bend
ing over me
81 thought it best to humor him,
remembering it was unwise for help
less woman to oppose the, as yet.
harmless freak of lunatic. He took
out his watch, shook his head gravely,
laid my hand down gently, then went
toward the study, where, Oh the table,
was all open case of surgical instru-
ments.
''Do not be alarmed, madame" he
said, turning to me as | was about TO
rise aud fee, and in another instant he
was by my side, with the case in his
possession.
"Ingoluntarily raised my hand and
cried:
"Spare me- o, spare me, beseech
you"
Madame, he said sternly. claspiug
my wrist with his long sinewy fingers,
with grip of steel, "you behave like
a child. have no time to parley for l
have received a letter from the Emp.r-
or ofthe French stating that he is suf-
fering from an lilac abscess, and Is de-
sirous of my attendance. | must start
for Europe Immediately after perform
ing the operation on your breast" and
before | could make the slightest re-
sistaDce he had me in his arms and WAS
carrying he into the study where there
was long table with green baize On
this he laid me, and holding me down
with the strength of a maniac, he
D..
in his gown several lors leather straps,
with which he secured me TO the table
with the skill of an expert. Ii vas but
the work of moment to unlooSe my |
robe and bare by bosom. Then, after |
carefully examining my left breast, lie
said:
Madame. your husband has made
mistake. l find no necessity for my
intended operation"
At tnis / gave long drawd sigh of
relief, and prepared to rise.
But" he continued, 81 have made
the discovery that your heart is AS large
as that of an OK, | will remove it so
that you may see for Yourself, reduce
it to its natui al size by curious process
of my own, unknown to the medical
and of which am the sole dis
coverer," and then replace it again.
He now began TO examine the edge
Of the cruel knife, oil which closed
my eyes, while every nerve KS in
perceptible tremor
1.-The mechanism of the heart is like
a watch" he resumed; ''if it goes too
fast the great blood vessel that supplies
the force must be stopped like the lev
er of a watch, and the works must be (;
cleaned and repaired and regulated. 1t {
may interest you to know that was
present at the post-mortem examina-
ton held over the remains of the beau {
-iful Louise of Prussia Had | been
before death i would have
saved her by taking out her heart and c
the polypi, between which it q
vas wedged like as If in wise; but | /
vas called too late. The king and |
lad little difference-he was Ger V
nan, am French. trust that is suf- I
icient explanation. II
"He now bent over Inc, his long
White beard brushing my face. raised
ny eyes beseechingly, trying to think :,
# sowe way to save myself. %, sir, =
i've me an anesthetic, that may not
eel the pain, pleaded.
Indeed, indeed madame. would +
omply with your wish were you not e
he wife OF physician of a skiIlful Fl
urgeon. wish you to note with G
That ease I>periorm this difficult ope- II
alton, SO that you may tell your hus- d
and of the great savant whose servi- n
es he secured, fortunately in season. >,
"As he said this he made the final u
PSI OF his knife on his thumb. How II
reclous we're the moments now. They a
'ere f1eeiug all too fast, and yet an ot
ternity seemed compressed in every =,
ne | never tainted in my life, and | Z"
ever felt less like swooning than now, W
5 summoned all my presence of mind N
delay the fearful moment, fervently y
raging in the meantime for my hus- &C
and's return.
doctor" said |, with assumed al
Ornposure, l have the utmost conf p
ence in your skill. Iwould not trust I'll
u life to another; but, doctor, you ".
ave forgotten to bring a napkin to ~ =,
aunch tie blood. If you will have II
lie goodness TO ascend t. my sleeping rC
lember, at the right of the hall, you m m
Ill tind everything you need for that ol u
urpose in the bureau. aI
Ala, madame, he said. shaking his 81
cad sagaciously, Il never draw blood w
urlng a surgical operation; that is 20
mother one of my secrets unknown to Ill
,e faculty.
Then placing his hand OH my bo- Lr ~
IN he added With horrible esLiegierie: ns ll..
" III scarcely mar that whittier skin ~ "a
ian snow and smooth as monumental W ui
abaster' an
$50, God" l cried, as felt the cold -
eel touch my breast; but with the pr
me breath came deliverance. ga
Quick as thought heavy wooden =. 81,
ano cover was thrown over the head a,
Id person of the madmsn, and bound 90, 90,
yhtly about him. As quickly was In In
leased, and the thongs that had No No
'und me soon held the maniac. ~,
My husband held me in his arrus. -:
e had noiselessly approached, and col
king IN tile horror of my situation at t;o
glance, had, by the only means at WI
md, secured the rnadman, who was an
e very patient he had been sum or
oued to attend, but who had escaped ca,
e vigilance of his keeper soon after