The Winslow mail., 1914-05-30

How long?"
| "Forty-fve minutes
And now about the anesthetic.
How long will it take me to come out
from under it's infuenee?"
well, usually patient who is not
heavily anesthetized begins to recover
consciousness as soon as the mask is
removed, that is to say, as soon as he
is off the table. But of course, GER
tain amount of stupor exists for-well,
perhaps for several hours"
But a patient could be aroused
from it,"
20, undoubtedly. He would feel
very sick, but he would be conscious,
might say, within few minutes
after the operation is ended-always
provided that the anesthetization was
not unduly heavy. Our practice nova
days is to keep the patient just suf-
ficiently anesthetized to destroy the
sense of pain; the administration of
the ether is suspended during the
! operation until he begins to show
signs of consciousness; then a few
more drops are poured over the mask,
and so on. In this way the mortality
has been reduced to-well, practically
eliminated"
Il understand, said Haynes. Then
on Monday at eight-thirty we shall be
at your door in the automobile"
"But, my dear sir" said Theoba1d,
surprised, you will have to be wait
ing for me in bed. There are certain
preparations necessary"
"My nurse can attend to that Will
| not be as safe after an automobile
ride as before?"
Theobald began to think his patient
crazy. Mentally he added fifty dollars
more; if he were insane he should at
least pay for his whims
Well" he said, laughing, "of course
we should have to sterilize your back
all over again. But STILL SO long as
you don't eat any breakfast, don't
see how ride could hurt you"
John Haynes rose up. He had
| learned all that he needed to know.
"At eight-thirty, then," he answered.
"Good-by, DR.. Theobald l hope that
our enterprise on Monday morning
will be highly successful"
Theobald watched him leave the
room with bewildered look "Now
where have l seen that man before?"
he muttered to himself. II know his
face" But he had known many faces,
and by the time the door of the house
had closed behind the Englishman
Theobald had ceased to search in the
amber-room of his brain There we're
SO many things that he did not care
to investigate.
On Monday morning the automobile
was waiting outside Theobald's house
promptly at the time appointed. In
side we're the patient and trim-look-
ing nurse. The doctor gazed at her
in some wonder. She seemed too
young to be a trained nurse. But her
| get-up was irreproachable, and he was
entirely Indifferent to her abilities,
Had she not been certificated he
would not have cared. Since Satur-
day he had altered his prospective fee
from three hundred to seven hundred
and fifty; he could always cut it down
| afterward if his patient objected; but
he would not be likely to object, since
he had never broached the subject OF
fees. Theobald hoped into the ma
chine with his instrument case and
patted his companion on the back
cheerily
There's no danger, Mr. Thompson .
he said heartily. Don't be afraid
| 'Tm not afraid" retorted Haynes
grimly. Il hope you will not be-"
The other laughed. TIN not likely
to be- he said. "By the way, what
make of machine is this? I never saw
anything like it. She must be on
| springs, but she runs so smoothly
why, I could almost perform an opera
ton here"
I'll give you a perhaps, .
said Thompson, smiling, and turned
abruptly toward the poorer region of
the town, beside the freight station,
edging the wilderness. Theobald was
now convinced that his patient was
mad. He looked at the nurse inquir-
iagly, but she sat silently in the ton
neau and ignored his professional
+ Signals" He felt momentary pang
of uneasiness, too, at the course the
machine was taking-for he feared
that he might have overestimated his
patients wealth. Certainly this quar-
ter of the town was not inhabited by
the weather. citizens of Nohomis.
However, he breathed more freely
when the machine swung out from
the town and along the roadway
which bordered the railroad tracks.
Soon they were in the midst of the
prairie. Undoubtedly, then, Mr..
Thompson possessed a house on the
outskirts-one of those new residen-
tial mansions, doubtless, which were
springing up everywhere in the vi
cinity OF course-and that was why
he had thoughtfully brought his auto
mobile for him. He smiled at his
thoughts and brought up his bill to its
original figure again.
Then, when Nokomis was out of
sight behind hummock of sand, the