[The Tysons by May Sinclair]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tysons CHAPTER V 20/23
I'll speak to Baker.
What are those damned doctors thinking of! Why can't they have done with it? Why can't they put her under chloroform ?" One by one the lamps over the billiard-table died down and went out; the firelight leapt and started on the wall, making the gloom of the great room visible; in the half-darkness Tyson became clairvoyant, and his self-reproach grew dominant and clamorous.
"It's all my fault--if she dies it'll be my fault! But how was I to know? How could I tell that anything like this would happen? I swear I'd die rather than let her go through this villainy a second time.
It's infamous--I'll kill myself before it happens again!" He flung himself on the sofa and turned his face to the wall, muttering invectives, blasphemies--a confused furious arraignment of the finite and the Infinite. At three o'clock the doctors sent for him.
When he came back he was very silent.
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