| Show murderer murdene r saved wardens warden P s child 1 tt dy by CHARLES E boxter BAXTER 0 1914 etora union 66 EULIN you understand that hyou you can expect no mercy tho the I 1 nature of your crime preclude krecl udes the possibility of it it but you have tile tho chance to redeem your life by a last net act of merit nodded lie he that smile of tile condemned murderer was ghastly Ilen ilin was A man without nerves lie ho tied had never quelled all those weeks in uio the cell of tho the condemned del lined A surgeon of internal dional reputation he was tile the only annn who alio had ever performed a certain very cult operation before ills day men said it could not bo be done no other surgeon burgeon had performed it success tully fully the man inan was mad anad otherwise lie he would neur neier limo have committed ills ghastly crime lla lie would never have to tortured a living child to death in his fits experiments and in two weeks ild he was to hang stood in tile tho sick alck in the wardens house tho the wardens achl child d lay gais gasping pIng its life out on tho the table all tho the operating implements were there A nurse white with terror was there tho warden was there with alth the me eyes ran over childs face lie ho felt tile pulse hi per cussed tile sent odthe of the disease yes lie said 1 I can save sao tier you will tid warden gasped ile iio wat was the alio father now thinking only of ills hla child not of tile his prisoner what to do I 1 get nothing the warden alook lili 1114 head die ale if need bei 11 1 want bo be false to my iny trust saw that lo lie 10 meant it abere was no relaxing in tho the wardens of duty duly ito ho was waa ready to lot let tile ilia child dle die rather ban icban let escape hemlin hesitated lie smiled again til ill do it lie he said ottber Lt Tt lier ber nurse I 1 4 at once lie ho took command lie ilo was no longer the annn awaiting a sharna fill death only tile the surgeon the lit and sponges were veto lifted out of the ilia boiling infecting disinfecting dis solution tile first incision was waa made tile the operation began liow how sho she went through with it nurse stevens stevena sald said afterward she alio never knew it was tho the most horrible hour of tier her career the condemned mail operating upon tho the nil all but lying dying child alid tile warden the clil childs lols father tnt lier watching keeping ills guard over film froni from a chair a verIn ills his pocket and ills hand gripping 9 tile lie revolver tinn dlo no how slid wont went through with it nurse stevens never know it was till nil a dim misty dreadful dream to tier her only she was aware at lost of the doctors stitching up the wound and of herself mechanically assisting him and then title heard film saying its nil all right te child will live then tile the warden was at tile tho condemned side aide grasping ills his hands bands and telling him in broken tones that lie he had find given back ufa iffe to him film too life and the shadow of the gal lows iowa and no hope for hemlin not the least in the world I 1 the child beginning to como out of the anesthetic stirred and uttered k a taint cry heralin gave the nairse n few brisk businesslike take out the superficial studies stitches in a few days lie ho said you can do fiat yourself follow the ordinary jost lost operative treatment there will be ba nothing special requiring my attention if there should be complicate complications ions they will occur within the he nett two weeks call on roe me after that time however lio wever it will be useless A moan escaped tho ilia wardens lips at the biting irony of it what can 1 do he moaned 1 I I 1 con can do nothing the governor wont take this into consideration sider atlon lint my friend you have done wonders for me responded smiling it was a great pleasure to be permitted to operate there were distinctly novel features I 1 consider this a n great triumph I 1 only regret that I 1 cannot have the opportunity of narrating it to a medical gon congress gress however there la Is one thing you can give rue roe warden five minutes mInt ites alone involuntarily his fits glance had strayed toward the razor edged scalpel you shall have it hemlin replied the lie wardan gripping him by tho the hands ue he went t lout out leaving ilond |
