The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-30

ed the boys hands over his breast,
The violin player stood by uneer.
tainiy.
How very young he Isl Was It
an accident"
1T was the result OF mans
damnablc folly" said X. grimly
SofnHbody always pays"
And 70 Johnny Roscnfeid paid.
The Immediate result % hts death
was that X. who had gained som.
Of his faith IN himself on seeing
Wilson on the way TO recovery was
be@et BY his old doubts
And now came a question that de.
mandcd immediate answer. Wilson
would be out of eommisrlon for sew.
crsl months. probably. He was gain.
ing. but slowly. And he wanted X d.
to take over his work.
why notYr he demanded. half
irri,ably. The secret il out. Every.
body knows who you are. You're
not thinking about going back to
that ridiculous gas office. are your
Il had some thought OF going 10
Cuba"
I'm damned II ! understand YOU.
You've done "A marvellous thing. /
lie here and listen to the staff sing
Ing your praises until I'm sick OF
your name, And now. sbccause a
boy who wouldn't have lived any.
how"
That's not H." X. put In hastily.
II know all that guess | could
do II and get away with IL nA well
as the average. All that deters me
I've never told you. have /. why
gave up before"
Wilson was propped up in his bed
X. was walking restlcssly about the
room. as was his habit when
troubled
I've heard the gossip. that's all"
when you recognized me that
night on the balcony. told you ia
lost my faith In myself, and you
said the whole affair had been gone
over at the state society. AS mat.
ter OF fact. the society knew OF only
two cases. There had been three"
Even az that"
You know what always felt
about the profession. Max. We
went into that more than once in
Berlin. Either ones best or moth.
ing. ! had done pretty well. When
| left Torch and built my own hos.
pital. I hadn't n doubt OF myself
And because | was getting results
got lot OF advertising. Men be.
gan coming TO the clinics. l found
| was making enough out of the
patients who could pay TO add few
free wards. / want 20 tell you now
Wilson. that the opening OF those
free wards was the greatest self.
indulgence I ever permitted myself.
ia seen so much careless attention
given the poor--well, never mind
that. II was almost three years
ago that things began TO go wrong
lost a big case
II know. All this doesn't influ.
ence me. Edwardes"
wait a moment We had "A sys.
tenn in the operating room az per.
feet az could devise IT, never
finished an operation without hav.
ing my first assistant verify the clip
and sponge count. But that first
case died because a sponge had been
left In the operating field. You
know how those things go. you can't
always see them. ana one goes by
the count. after reasonable caution.
Then | almost lost another case in
the same way--a free case.
AS well as I could tell the pre-.
cautions had not been relaxed !
was doing from four TO six cases "A
day. After the second one ! almost
went crazy. made up my mind,
IL there was ever another, I'd give
up and go away"
There was another"
Not for several months. When
the last case died. a free case again,
performed my own autopsy. !
allowed only my first assistant In
the room. lie was almost as fren.
zied us l was. IL was the same