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Updated: June 21, 2025
At that warm defence, so full of youth and manly virtue, I pressed his hand. "When he woke," continued Prosper, "he must have been terrified and lost his head; no doubt he fled." "Without awaking you?" I said. "Then surely your defence is easy; Wahlenfer's valise cannot have been stolen." Suddenly he burst into tears. "Oh, yes!" he cried, "I am innocent! I have not killed a man!
This terrible agony, produced, possibly, by the too sudden reunion of our two natures separated during sleep, is usually transient; but in the poor young surgeon's case it lasted, and even increased, causing him suddenly the most awful horror as he beheld a pool of blood between Wahlenfer's bed and his own mattress.
The head of the unfortunate German lay on the ground; his body was still on the bed; all its blood had flowed out by the neck. Seeing the eyes still open but fixed, seeing the blood which had stained his sheets and even his hands, recognizing his own surgical instrument beside him, Prosper Magnan fainted and fell into the pool of Wahlenfer's blood.
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