The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-22
CHAPTER III (Continued)
IT HE host merely smiled again. II
warned YOU in the beginning that
! you might lose your temper. but
I reallN hnnnd rnr1 u-cllIdn.

IT HE host me -ely smiled again. II
warned YOU in the beginning that
you might lose your temper. bu-
I really hoped YOU wouldn't l
want 70 avoid all the complications. all
the serious complications, let me say.
that must arise If YOU force me to for
get my relation 10 you as host. yours
20 mine as medical adviser There,
that's right he added as Hargreave
once more took his seat. the birthmark
burning On his brow
so far. 80 COCA. We understand the
facts. at least if not each other. For
everything that has displeased YOU or
wounded your Self-csteem. either IN Cly
acts or words. believe me. I apologize
most fully. 1 tell YOU now. and you
Will soon come to understand. that az
EOlutely no other course was open TO
me. merely did what l had to-and
other than that, no man can DO You
seq
Hargreave assented- Go on with IT,"
be EroNled. Come. get II over with
I Will Further than what 1 have
told you, I must say that in what I
freely admit 10 be a very Eigh-handed
manner. justihable only JhroUEh a ter
Tible necessty-tle necessity OF what
4
have planned and do stu uIan 70 keep
yOu here with ne. at your own price.
Until such tine as 1 can-that Is. until
the-a-certain experiment has been
made. And
How long will 1t take SIR" ex-
ruaimed the surgeon. sharply. His tenn
per had abatcd. the red mark was tad-
Ing out. AS he leaned forward across
The table. looking lntentA al his host.
growing interest BEGAN TO manifest il
self ia his stern face. LaWICr's reason
able tone and frank statement had not
been without effect upon him
How lonS?"
Six months
six months. But. nv great heavens,
man, that's impossible. Six months away
from my practice Why, sir. however
urgent this work. however Necessary.
you CAM wish TO ruin me-
The other laughed.
Ruin you? Perish the thought.
When we get down to making terms,
yoUu see, yOU'u seer
Not money 1 mean, ruin me in my
work, To take me away from my
work for half a year, let the news 80
Forth that l am lost or dead-WOTst
OF all, force Inc TO lag behind the
progress Of the surgical world for 50
1ong-that viii spell ruin.
ON the contrary, doctor. these
months which you are going TO pass
as my guest, either voluntarily or not,
and shoulders above any living sur
geOn on earth. The work before you,
the opportunities for research, oNper-
ament, construction. for graphing
with the secrets of being. of very life
opportunities which never I'm the
outside world could by any possibility
be yours. opportunities which no col
league of yours has ever enjoyed since
time began-these, doctor, will make
You supreme I'm knowledge, in tech
mic, in execution. They will"
can this be true2' Hargreaye eN-
Claimed, his face illumineu by a sud
gen passionate eagerneSs, which even
ms stern features could not wholly
hide.
EFT can, and is. You. doctor, have an
opportunity before you so great that
when you understand IL, nothing 1
can say about IL viii need he said.
OF that we will speak later. But for
the present I've understand each
other, do we not? L have your word
''WiH not try to escape, or com
municate in any way with anybody
outside this place, wherever il is2"
suggested the doctor.
LaWlOr nodded. Yes, that" he as
sented. And also that whatever
skill and knowledge you may acquire
here, you never viii use that skill or
that knowledge to destroy me, as, Of
course. you could If you saw fit"
Destroy you, How
BY revealing the precise nature Of
the-t,e final experiments
That depends on their character
Time will tell. For the present I can
promise nothing. Nothing whatever.