Show i I PETTY PACE PACEy I e y f e t u f DONE FOn Co Go awa away and A 1 let me die Thus Thug speaks peak the martyred character character char char- acter In man many a novel and the doctor doctor doc tor and others othera attending the sick lick or Injured one usually bow their heads head and dutifully step back a afew afew few feet from the death couch to admire the wa way he gasps UPI hit his last lut The They seem leem wistful over his hil lot The doctor makes a sober ritual of folding his bl stethoscope and sheathing his bis thermometer and putting putting putting put put- ting them slowly back Into his hi black satchel A sad lad tableau but one gravely enjoyed b by aU all present The chapter ends It ma may ruin man many a plot but I think a few of these martyrs could be saved laved if only the led sedate ate bystanders ers era weren't so 10 willing to take them at their own last words word and would lift a hand to tie up a severed levered artery artery ar tery or administer a wonder drug or two The They seem leem unwilling to deprive de the victim of his hil brave role He should hould leap up sad and 1 horsewhip them i Look how the they try to match snatch the villian from the Jaws jaw of death so 10 they can han hang him Let him dare open his mouth and heroically state that he h. is I. dying Liar the doctor will be the first to shout hout as a. belays be he lays lay open the tha sick Ick mans man's heart with witha a scalpel What makes make the bloody martyr so sure lure be he's hes dying I think that he wants to be assured that he isn't not sacrificed as a. a courageous example I know persons persona who've been yelping for years yean they're there dying but wont won't submit to playing in an any scene leene in which the doc doe resignedly pulls the sheet heet over their morose visages The doc doe in the novels novel should take into consideration that the babbling patient has ha either been knocked groggy or if is left maudlin b by fever But no the no-the the doctor accepts the martyrs martyr's inept diagnosis without as much as a. a cardiogram and waves everybody back against the wall to enjoy enjo a little mournful tribute Send another stretcher t I t am dying too |