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Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process

CHAPTER II
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The doctor thought that the fatal shot must have been fired about three o'clock that morning, and, when Henry heard this, he knew that it was the breath of the angel of death as he flew by that had chilled the genial current in his veins.
Bayley's family lived elsewhere, and his father, a stern, cold, haughty-looking man, was the only relative present at the funeral.

When Mr.Lewis undertook to tell him, for his comfort, that there was reason to believe that George was out of his head when he took his life, Mr.
Bayley interrupted him.
"Don't say that," he said.

"He knew what he was doing.

I should not wish any one to think otherwise.

I am prouder of him than I had ever expected to be again." A choir of girls with glistening eyes sang sweet, sad songs at the funeral, songs which, while they lasted, took away the ache of bereavement, like a cool sponge pressed upon a smarting spot.


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