He had to perform an operation at a moment's notice, hadn't got the proper paraphernalia with him, and sucked the poison out himself." "Good heavens, Nick!" said Olga, turning very white.

"And the child ?" "The child is better.

It is to be taken to the hospital to-day." "Will it--won't it--have an effect on him ?" gasped Olga.
"Heavens knows," said Nick.
"And that's why he didn't come down to breakfast," she said.

"How did you find out about it?
He didn't tell you ?" "He couldn't help it," said Nick.

"He stole my bath this morning, and when I arrived he was lying in it face downwards boiling himself in some filthy disinfectant that made the bathroom temporarily uninhabitable.
Naturally I lodged a complaint, and finally got at the whole story.