His head hung upon his breast and his body swung limply.Ī fourth man stepped from the automobile. They moved forward, not supporting but carrying this other man. They straightened and then I saw that they had locked their arms around the shoulders of a third. The two of them stooped and seemed to be fumbling around inside. He looked sharply up and down the deserted street, then threw the door wide open. As I did so an automobile drew up at the entrance to the hospital.Īs I stood, wondering what its arrival at that hour meant, a man slipped out of it. I paused for a moment at the top of the steps to look at the brilliancy of the stars.
Ordinarily I would have been in bed and asleep, but there was a case in which I was much interested, and Braile, my assistant, had telephoned me of certain developments which I wished to observe. I heard the clock strike one as I walked up the hospital steps.
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