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The same reluctance to raise her heavy eyelids, the same entreaty to be left undisturbed, which had alarmed me on the memorable morning when I had entered Mr. Keller's room! Doctor Dormann signed to me to follow him out. As he opened the door, the nurse inquired if he had any further instructions for her.
"Fetch Doctor Dormann. Joseph will show you where he lives." He turned to another of the clerks, supporting Mrs. Wagner in his arms while he spoke. "Ring the bell in the hall the upstairs bell for Madame Fontaine!" Madame Fontaine instantly left her room. Alarmed by the violent ringing of the bell, Minna followed her mother downstairs.
The terror of impending discovery had never left her, since Jack had owned the use to which he had put the contents of the blue-glass bottle. Animated by that all-mastering dread, she had thrown away every poison in the medicine-chest had broken the bottles into fragments and had taken those fragments out with her, when she left the house to follow Doctor Dormann.
"You can see the plan of the cemetery," he said, "in my office on the other side of the building." Mr. Keller looked back into the cell. Jack had taken his place in it, when the couch had been carried in; and Doctor Dormann was quietly observing him. Mr. Keller beckoned to Jack. "I am waiting for you," he said. "Come!" "And leave Mistress?" Jack answered. "Never!" Mr.
Doctor Dormann, taking up his hat, stopped to look at Mother Barbara, fast asleep in her easy chair by the bedside. "I must find you a competent nurse to-morrow," he said. "No, not one of the hospital women we want someone with finer feelings and tenderer hands than theirs. In the meantime, one of you must sit up with Mr. Keller to-night.
And more ominous still, a new symptom had appeared; it was with evident difficulty that she performed the act of swallowing. Doctor Dormann turned resignedly to the surgeon. "There is no other alternative," he said; "you must bleed her." At the sight of the lancet and the bandage, Jack started out of his corner. His teeth were fast set; his eyes glared with rage.
Doctor Dormann informed him that the change had been made, with his full approval, to satisfy a surviving friend, and that the coffin would be provided before the certificate was granted for the burial. While the persons present were all gathered round the doctor and the overseer, Madame Fontaine softly pushed open the door from the courtyard.
Doctor Dormann had rashly rushed at a false conclusion that was the one comforting reflection that occurred to me. I threw open my door again in a frenzy of impatience to hear the decision, whichever way it might turn. The experiment had been tried in my absence. Mr. Keller had fallen into a broken slumber.
"Do you know this person?" asked the doctor, turning to Jack. "Yes! yes! leave me here with him," Jack answered eagerly. "Good-night, sir good-night!" Doctor Dormann looked again at Jack's friend. "I thought strangers were not allowed here at night," he said. "It's against the rules," Schwartz admitted. "But, Lord love you, sir, think of the dullness of this place! Besides, I'm only a deputy.
Doctor Dormann was just closing the little bag in which he had brought his testing apparatus from his own house. Even now there was no prevailing on him to state his suspicions plainly. "It's curious," he said, "to see how all mortal speculations on events, generally resolve themselves into threes. Have we given the emetic too late? Are my tests insufficient? Or have I made a complete mistake?"
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