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"Go downstairs and see Mr. Engelman. There must be no talking here." She lightly wiped the perspiration from his forehead; lightly laid her fingers on his pulse then reclined in the easy chair, with her eyes fixed in silent interest on the sleeping man. She was the very ideal of the nurse with fine feelings and tender hands, contemplated by Doctor Dormann when I had last seen him.
I am afraid of a relapse into that violent madness leave him to me." Mr. Keller left the room with the overseer. Doctor Dormann returned to the cell. "Listen to me, Jack," he said. He turned, and spoke to Duntzer. "Is the alarm-bell set?" "Yes, sir." The doctor addressed himself once more to Jack. "Now look, and listen!" he said.
Keller was on the point of stepping into the cell, when Doctor Dormann took his arm, and led him away out of hearing. "I want to ask you a question," said the doctor. "Was that poor creature's madness violent madness, when Mrs. Wagner took him out of the London asylum?" "I have heard her say so." "Be careful what you do with him. Mrs. Wagner's death has tried his weak brain seriously.
Good God! had I not surprised her standing close by the table on which the night-drink was set? and had I not heard Doctor Dormann say, "That's unlucky," when he was told that the barley-water had been all drunk by the patient, and the jug and glass washed as usual?
In ominous silence, she turned about and ascended the stairs again. The departure from the house was interrupted by an unforeseen cause of delay. Jack refused to follow the hearse with Doctor Dormann and Mr. Keller. "I won't lose sight of her!" he cried "no! not for a moment! Of all living creatures, I must be the first to see her when she wakes." Mr. Keller turned to the doctor.
He betrayed his own perplexity in arriving at a true "diagnosis" of the patient's case, by bringing with him, at his second visit, a brother-physician, whom he introduced as Doctor Dormann, and with whom he asked leave to consult at the bedside. The new doctor was the younger, and evidently the firmer person of the two. His examination of the sick man was patient and careful in the extreme.
Dormann paid his promised visit, I felt I was now bound to inform him that another person besides the servants and ourselves had obtained access secretly to Mr. Keller's room. I was so completely worn out by agitation and want of sleep and I showed it, I suppose, so plainly that good Mr. Engelman insisted on my leaving him in charge, and retiring to rest.
There must be no confusion on such a serious subject as life and death. I blame nobody I understand nothing I merely go. Follow me, if you please, sir." Had he been drinking? He led the way up the next flight of stairs, steadily and quietly. He knocked discreetly at Madame Fontaine's door. "Mr. David Glenney," he announced, "to see Doctor Dormann." Mr.
"My letter despatched," Mr. Engelman continued, "I begged both the doctors to speak with me before they went away, in my private room. There I told them, in the plainest words I could find, exactly what I have told you. Doctor Dormann behaved like a gentleman. He said, 'Let me see the lady, and speak to her myself, before the new remedy is tried. As for the other, what do you think he did?
Before long, Doctor Dormann and the surgeon appeared, followed by Mr. Keller. The three went downstairs together. On the way, the Doctor mentioned that he had secured a nurse for the night. Still keeping the bottle concealed, Jack knocked softly at the door, and entered Mrs. Wagner's room. He first looked at the bed.
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