At this point she stepped a little ahead of him, and at the same moment the hired assassin slipped up behind the victim and drove his knife into his back.

The wife shrieked.

The husband staggered and fell, and the "bravo" fled.
The police arrived, and so did an ambulance, which removed the hysterical wife and the transfixed victim to a hospital.

Luckily the ambulance surgeon did not remove the knife, and his failure to do so saved the life of the photographer, who in consequence practically lost no blood and whose cortex was skilfully hooked up by a dextrous surgeon.
In a month he was out.

In another the police had caught the would-be murderer and he was soon convicted and sentenced to State prison, under a contract with the assistant to be paid two hundred and fifty dollars for each year he had to serve.