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The symptoms may be relieved by rest and by soothing applications, such as belladonna, ichthyol, or menthol, by the use of hot-air and electric baths, and in obstinate cases by blistering or by the application of Corrigan's button. When such treatment fails the nerve may be stretched, or, in the case of a purely sensory trunk, a portion may be excised.
I heard her tell her aunt they were going to Blakeley's ranch it's about eight miles from here." Corrigan's face went white. "I'll kill him for that!" he said. "Jealous, eh?" laughed the banker. "So, that's the reason " Corrigan turned and struck bitterly.
The train that carried Corrigan's letter eastward bore, among its few other passengers, a young man with a jaw set like a steel trap, who leaned forward in his seat, gripping the back of the seat in front of him; an eager, smoldering light in his eyes, who rose at each stop the train made and glared belligerently and intolerantly at the coach ends, muttering guttural anathemas at the necessity for delays.
Voices came from somewhere in the banking room, voices raised in altercation. Neither of the two men, raging around the rear room, heard them they had become insensate savages oblivious of their surroundings, drunken with passion, with the blood-mania gripping their brains. Trevison had brought the last ounce of his remaining strength into play and had landed a crushing blow on Corrigan's chin.
Braman, arrayed as he had been the night before, had opened the door. He had been just ready to go when he heard Corrigan's knock. "Going out, Croft?" said Corrigan pleasantly, eyeing the other intently. "All lit up, too! You're getting to be a gay dog, lately." There was nothing in Corrigan's bantering words to bring on that sudden qualm of sickening fear that seized the banker.
But I sh'ud judge, lookin' at Corrigan's face, that it was a darlin' av a scrap." She was silent, gazing contemplatively out of the car window. Corrigan had returned, after escorting her to the car, to engage in a fight with Trevison. That was what had occupied him; that was why he had gone away without seeing her. Well, Trevison had given him plenty of provocation.
Corrigan's smile was crooked; it told eloquently of conscious power over the man he had named. "He'll come whenever I give the word. Benham's got something on him." "You always were a clever son-of-a-gun!" laughed the banker, admiringly. Ignoring the compliment, Corrigan walked into the rear room, where he gazed frowningly at his reflection in a small glass affixed to the wall.
A heavy blow caught Trevison on the right side of the neck just below the ear and sent him, tottering, against the wall of the building, from which he rebounded like a rubber ball, smothering Corrigan with an avalanche of deadening straight-arm punches that brought a glassy stare into Corrigan's eyes.
I played it strong, but there was no chance for me from the beginning. Trevison thinks you are Corrigan's trump card in this game. It is a game, isn't it. But he loves you in spite of it all. He told me he'd go to the gallows for you. Aren't men the sillies! But just the same, dearie, we women like to hear them murmur those little heroic things, don't we?
The local treatment consists chiefly in improving the nutrition of the affected limb by means of massage, exercises, baths, and electricity. Splints are to be avoided. In refractory cases, benefit may follow the application of blisters or of Corrigan's button. The general condition of the patient must be treated on the same lines as in other neuroses.
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