He was still upon the operating table but breathing quietly and as strongly as at any time since he had received his wound.
"This shows," Dr.Gys said to her, his voice keen with elation, "what fools we are to take any human condition for granted.

Man is a machine.
Smash his mechanism and it cannot work; make the proper repairs before it is too late and--there he goes, ticking away as before.

Not as good a machine as it was prior to the break, but with care and caution it will run a long time." "He will live, then, you think ?" she asked softly, marveling that after what she had witnessed the man was still able to breathe.
Gys leaned down and put his ear to the heart of the patient.

For two minutes he remained motionless.

Then he straightened up and a smile spread over his disfigured features.
"I confidently believe, Miss Stanton, we have turned the trick! Luck, let us call it, for no sensible surgeon would have attempted the thing.
Rest assured that Andrew Denton will live for the next ten days.