15/31 "The Individual squeezed him a little too hard, I suppose," he added, applying his ear to the region of the heart, and moving his head about a little as he did so. "He is no more dead than you are--the greater pity! It would have been so convenient. It is nothing but a slight syncope--probably the result of poorness of blood and an over-excited state of the nervous system. Help me to lay him on his back. You ought to have known that was the only thing to do. |