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"0" rjXETFIK" 20 PAGES. 20 PAGES. Section Two Eight Pages. 1 Section Two Eight Pages. T'i"ii"i"i"i''i''i-'i"i''i"iiii'Ha ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN , CHARLOTTE. VOL. XXXV NO. 641 1 CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1906 PRICE: 5 CENTS English System of Inspection Declared By London Scientists to be Useless And Inefficient Disgusting Condi tion of Slaughter Houses Horrors of - Rotten Row" at Smithfield Mar- Copyrigr.t in Great Britain and the United States by Curtis Brown. All Rights Strictly Reserved. Friecial to The News. l.uiulon Aug. 31. Gulity Uuerican nit at packers may at least rejoice in having companions in crime, fcxauiinations just made " in Eng land by various sanitary authr ities conclusively demonstrate that English meat packers and other food manufactures are quite on A. pal Willi llltll ItaU IUUS1US .. , i . - . whom they have so loudly denounced recently, irom every part of London, j auu. inueea, lium an me mg cities 01 England come reports from sani tary authorities to the effect that con (iitions prevailing in a number of can ning factories, in meat markets, slaughter houses and butcher shops -could not, be worse." According to statements made over their own signatures by many of the most prominent public analysts, meat prepared arid put up by English pack ers is often in a condition not only dangerous to the public health but ; JJMeMagBC II HI II I M1WMlUMliimiiiiiiMm.. ..... M...i.m.n-i-.,.'a, j HMMPPM.'I (Sit, I (mimgmmmt t ml ..'I tMmmmmmW III lit I I few I MH 1 1 fes ) rR II L, THOMAS. MEDICAL OFFICER Ob HEALTH FOR STEPXEY, "ik n u Sli.-roscopic Examination of Some Canned Meat. Pr. 'J'bomaa Has Analyzed More Food TIa Anj. t)r,, jjjitai Officer ic England. absolutely poisonous. AH -sorts of permanganate of potash to keep them ruses and dodges are employeu fur fr0m smelling, and sold at the ridicu- concealing the real nature of the food- ;tuffs prepared ' in this country. When the first announcement of the Chicago exposures reached 'England a universal shout went up from meat packers to the effect that had "home industries" been patronized there would have been no cause for alarm. Almost immediately the importation of American canned goods dropped off to an alarming extent, and the Ameri can industry received a staggering blow. No opportunity was lost by British packers themselves and the "trade" generally, to roast American products of every kind; and while wrecking the American market these packers made desperate attempts to get their own products prominently before the public. Stores in various parts of "7 London . dis played big signs reading "No Ameri can tinned goods sold here British products only," and "Use Honest Brit ish Goods; don't eat vile American stuff." But the triumph was not for long. Dr. F. Cooper, one of the best known medical men in London, who is also member of -Parliament,-and of the Lon don County Council, rose up bravely to say in public that English meat packers and sellers "were as guilty as their American rivals., In a states ment made to the writer on this sub ject, Drt Cooper, saiu: . - . "The public has no conception of the filthy conditions prevailing in most of the English 'slaughter houses,' especi ally the small private ones. Chicago's worst place could not be any worse than these. Most of the small slaught er houses in England are absolutely without any inspection whatever; the butchers may kill when they like and ?mder whatever conditions they please. The places; literally reek with filth; they are never properly ' cleaned up, and the conditions under which ani mals are slain make the meat unfit f'v human consumption. I have proof of, the sale in London of the carcases of animals that have died of tuberculo sis in various parts of the country. "As for meat inspection in1 this coun try it does not exist. The inspectors have .no training ;whateverthey 3now nothing about bacteriological or microscopical examination. They on ly have their sense of smell to go by. butchers know this; and when they iiave meat which is particularly bad, mid smells so 'loud' that even an in spector would notice it, they treat the meat with perman ganate of potash, .which kills the smell temporarily at least, long enough for the so-called inspector prononunced it sound. "What with selling turbereulous and rotten meat, and with the perfunctory and useless system of aleged inspec tion that goes on in this country, I do not consider that we in England are a whit better off than the Ameri cans. With uneducated inspectors who are not up to the tricks df the trade, no one in England is, safe in eating the 'roast beef of old England' that we ' boast so much about. "There is a place in Smithfield Market the largest meat centre in England, where thousands of tons of meat are sold which is called 'Rotten UAnr ' - r I !. : ... 1 1 . f J 1 . 1 - --'" i"io ccluuu Ul llic juo.in.ti. does not come under the jurisdiction of the inspectors who have charge of -" ui uuuuuu. auu, u. iuase- quence, when bad meat is to be dis-j poseu ot it nncls its way to "Rotten Row.' Here inspectors are not allowed to interfere, and you may imagine what goes on. Tuberculous, filthy meat is here offered for sale. People of the poorer classes buy this stuff; and I have no doubt that many diseases and even deaths may be attributed to it. "I have seen with my own eyes crates of Ostend rabbits treated with lously low price of seventy-five cents per crate. This is practically giving them away. They - have to be sold for the reason that the permanganate only keeps them from smelling for a short time, and if they are not. gotton rid of quickly eveu the purchasers would realize their condition. "It must be remembered that rabbit is one of the staple articles., of con sumption among the poorer classes in England. Thousands of tons of rabbit are sold on the London market each year. Of course, I lo not say that all this meat is bad, but a large quanity of it is. None of it is properly inspect ed, and it is often sold in a condi- faking ft "Sample: from a Side of Meit to Ascertain tion which renders it highly danger ous for human consumption. "Even when meat is in a fairly de cent condition, I have seen it offered for sale under , 'circumstances which render it "; nnfit ; for human food. In England a large amount of trading is done from what we call barrows, or, as the Americans say, push carts, from salt and meat to furniture and fish. Again and again I have seen push carts with meat and fish for sale standing over open foud-smelling drains and sewers. Naturally this meat, often being warm and freshly killed, forms a splendid culture medium for all sorts of germs, and, of course, when human beings buy it it is literally reeking with all sorts of bacterial matter. A great deal of it gets fly blown, and if we had any decent in spection in this country it would be condemned. There should be a law! passed in the country forbidding the sale of meat from push carts.and also it should be forbidden to expose meat on the dusty streets, unprotected by glass covering, as is done in every butcher shop in England. "No matter what may be said of Chicago, we nave equally bad condi tions prevailing here, not only in the sale of what is misnamed 'f r'eshkilled' meat, but also in the canned goods variety." Bearing out Dr. Cooper's statements as to canned goods, every analyst of London employed to make special ex aminations of British tinned goods found the condition prevailing quite as bad as those existing in America before the great "house-cleaning" there. As a matter of fact, nearly every London public analyst just now has his hands full making analyses of canned meats and other canned goods. Special attention is being given to British produce, and some startling revelations have just been made. At the special instances of the Local Gov ernment Board no less than twenty eight different sections of London have taken up the investigation of tricnackinrLuses In exery public cans bul out from . the gases of de tricpacking nouses, in exery pumic composition 0ften . when these tins laboratory and there is one for near-. narr m nst smp1 is ly every district of London you see piles of canned goods standing wait ing for analysis, while specially em ployed chemists microscopists, and bac teriologists are looking assiduously for evidences of diseased and deleteri ous matter in the contents of the sup posed irreproachable English canned goods about wich packers have been boasting so much. The result of many of these analyses has been the prosecution and inflic tion of heavy fines and even imprison ment on many London packers. In one case, where borac acid was found in potted ham, the meat, had turned black, and it was testified by experts that it had been treated with preser vative because it was unfit for human consumption when packed. The firm whose label was on this abonination had been supplying large quantities of canned meats to the British army, and had branches in London, Dover, Dublin, Aldershot (the principial Army Corps camp), Gibraltar and other places. Undoubtedly- each year thou sands of tons of , this deleterious can ned stuff was supplied to the British Army. The magistrates on this oc casion imposed a fine of $25 on one analysis and $250 costs, while other analyses were sent up for "further investigation." The public analyst, who has done more work on foodstuff than any other London Health Officer, is Dr. D. L. Thomas, Medical Officer for the metro politan borough of Stepney. It is in Dr. Thomas's dislfrlct Ihatmany c the largest London docks are situated. Here arrive daily shipments from all over the world; and it is from this district that large shipments of British canned goods are sent abroad. Dr. Thomas was found by the writer in his laboratory, surrounded by huge piles of English and Ameri can canned goods, 'the contents of which were undergoing various proces ses of analysis. Some samples were in platinum dishes placed over spirit lamps and undergoing incineration others were being weighed on -delicate analytical .balances; while the doctor himself was busy with the micros cope looking for "active organisms." Departing from the rule of most Lon- don Medical Officers he permitted him- . . : ' SANITARY INSPECTOR -AT SMITHFIELD .MA.KI4KT Whether It Is Tubeiculoua or Not. " The Vteits of self to be photographed while at work. "We examine in this district," said Dr. Thomas, "foor stuffs from all parts of the . world. We . have fruits and pulpjs from Tasmania; rabbits, fruitand meat from Australia; meats, salmon and fruits from Canada, and some fruit from California'. We have prac tically no canned goods from the American Beef Trust in our district. Most of our stuff is British, therefore, and our results point conclusively to the fact that British goods are no bet ter than those from America; and, in many cases, much worse. For in stance, to give soip-e interesting figures, in 1901 110 tons ".of impure food were destroyed; in 1902 430 tons . of bad food were destroyed; in 1903 488 tons of bad food were destroyed, while in 1904 there were 735 tons of British food which had to be condemned. The remarkable increase from 1901 to 1904 shows the loose methods employed in packing tinned meats. On an average in our district alone during the five years there has been one ton of tinned goods destroyed daily. Previous to the introduction of systematic laboratory work, all this enormous quantity of bad food stuffs was sold to the public. As a matter of fact, it was a wellknown dodge, only a few years ago, to sell some of this food as manure,' when it was in such a condition that the owners feared they might be prosecuted if its con sumption led to fatalities. The buyers were not given receipts for their mon ey until after the day of purchase, and then, on the bill, the magic words 'not ,to be used for human consump tion''; were written. This let the sel ler out in the event of trouble. Un doubtedly much of this stuff fit only for manure was sold in the poor dis tricts, and used as food by human be ings. I am inclined to think this quite on a par with anything that happened in Chicago, if it does not go it 'one better.' "As 'every one knows, tinned meats become 'blown' if decomposition goes on in the cans that is, the ends of the given forth. Previous to our rigid examination of the foods, it was . a practice among certain dealers to prick these tins with microscopic holes to let out the decomposing gases, and then to have, the tin relabled and resealed. As a consequence large quantities of rotten, decayed tinned foods found their way on the market, and I have no doubt many deaths would have been traced to them had . their condition been suspected. When I was medical officer of health to the Limehouse Board of Works I in stituted proceedings against one of the largest houses engaged in this prac tice, the case lasted several days, and attracted widespread attention. This particular deale I am. glad to say, went to prison "under a sentence of five months hard labor. Since that time 'blown' tins have been conspicu ously absent, and I have been unable to find any trace, in my district at least of the 'pricking' process I have described. "A good deal of tinned food is sold which has not yet reached the 'blow' stage. These cans can always be dis tinguished by the fact that when you tap them on the outside they give forth a more resonant note than sound tins. The gases which have gathered inside the tin make a note from half a tone to a tone higher than the note given out by the sound tin. In good meat, well packed, the sound is dead. In old cans we often find large quan tities of tin mixed in with the food. This is very injurious to the health and may cause severe illness, and even death f ron setting up gastro-intestinal trouble. The maximum amount of tin which I have found in English canned goods has been as follows: Lobster, 2.94 - grains per pound; mackerel,2.55 grains per pound; pineapple,. 2.97 grains per pound; salmond,1.32 grains; condensed milk, .2.37 grains; apricot, 2.92 grains; black current jelly. 1.96 grains. . , . "Of course all this is highly del eterious. In salmon I have found traces of lead as well as quantities of tin. Food that has been tinned more than three years should be looked on with suspicion.. -. .... - . "With reference to canned meats, we really have no propped system of tatt'Maalui? Iosptctora 4 Aiwa! "SurprUej.'tr: l be ascertained by what, we call a phy siologocal test that is: trying ; the stuff on guinea pigs or mice and ob serving its effect. As we are placed today, diseased meat:may ; be. packed in this country with'rir4punlty, and we will be hone the wiser: We have no proper system of instection which would prevent dealers from doing pret ty much as they liked. Meat should be inspected for disease before it is" kill ed, and no meat should be allowed to be sold unless it undergoes this in spection. Then, again, there is no proper inspection of private slaught ed houses butchers kill when; and where they please; As to canned meat, we xiannpt tell from examining the con tents of a can whether the meat was put up under clean,- saiiitary - condi tions or not. As a rule, when we find traces of boracic ackl and other pre servatives in meat tins the 'presump tion is that bad meat has been put up and that the preservatives have been introduced to make it. "We "-often find that bad meat is used in London when . 'minced.' This meat is spiced to disguise the smell and taste. The mincing of meat should only be allowed at stated times when under proper inspection. In our district we have found some of the tripe shops and other meatplaces where small quantities are sold to be in a filthy condition. In one place I examined I found ; two tons of meat, such as sheep's heads, tripe, liver and species. of hog's head cheese in; a vat under the most disgraceful conditions. In the same room was an open sewer, with a broken drain. In another of these shops the condition . were so disgusting . that I instigated proceed ings and succeeded in getting the pro prietor fined $100. This dealer finally closed up and was forced out of busi ness. :..-.. "There are large quantities of horse meat sold in London, but it is mostly used for feeding cats. At the same time, yon never see horses' tongues be ing sold for cats'meat. . I am under the impression that many horses' tongues are used in London for human consumption." . . Confirming the opinions of Dr. Thomas, which are here given, owing to the fact that he analyzed a larger quantity of foodstuff than any other medical officer of London, are the opin ions of nearly all other London ana lysts. Some even have found even worse conditions than Dr. Thomas. In fact, the medical officer for Bethnal Green in the East End of London found a can of brawn a species of hog's head cheese much used as food in London which was literally reeking with liv ing organisms. This was worse than any thing found in America or other meat examined. As a matter of fact,, the reports of London analysts with reference to American canned goods have been decidedly favorable; it hay ing been proved that there was more preservatives, larger deposits of tin, and more unsound meat in British can ned goods than in the goods coming from American packing houses. W. B. NORTHROP. Britain's Unbreeched Clergy. From London Vanity Fair. It is being gravely mooted that the picturesque dress of bishops, deans, and archdeaconss might be extended to the rest of the clergy.- As a matter of fact, the seventy-fourth cannon pre scribed that identical dress for the while of the clergy, and they are in consequence entitled, if not in duty bound, to adopt it. In the country the breeches and gaiters would be a very sensible alternative to trousers, and it is somewhat surprising that while many of the rural clergy wear knickerbockers, bue few have adopted breeches, which were especially en joined on them by the cannon.' Not Unprofessional. From the Baltimore Sun. V.. A capital story is being told of a K. C. now much in the public eye. He once took up a brief for nothing and won the case. The grateful client,how ever, sent a postal order for 15 shill ings, which the.K. C. accepted, through fear of giving offense by. sending it back. At the oar mess one of the bar risters jocularly accused him of unpro fes.tiona,l 'conduct in accepljing less than gold. "Excuse me," replied the K..C, "but I took air the poor beggar had. I - consider that : is not unpro fessional." . . An Idea. From the Philadelphia. Public Ledger. "There's-a lot of . talk in the papers," said - Mr. Dumley. "about : the 'necessi ty of uniform divorce laws.' I wonder what that means?" ; "Probably," suggested Mrs. Dumley, "it's to compel divorced people to wear a uniform, so other folks can recognize 'em." At The Court Of St-. James. From the New York Sun. We report with , deep regret the Ambassadors will .find no joke The hands across' the: sea to poke If Roosevelt sends up in smoke The common tongue" that Shakespeare spoke- From the Philadelphia Press. Miss . Hevveriey How do you pro nounce e-m-o-n-p-o- int-? Mr. Knox Oh 1 it's easy enough to pronounce: that. . . " Miss Hevveriey How? Mr, Knox -Fat.- - C---- . The NemYork Hotel Register which is everywhere known as" authority on hotel matters, says the Grand Union Hotel; at Uaratoga' Springs,- N Y., Is known everywhere as the largest, and finest summer hotel in the world. Al most "everybody who is anybody," it would seem, may be found at the Grami Union during the summer. This great hotel is noted for the excellence of its service; fine table select music, concerts and balls. The proprietors, Messrs. Woodley and Gerrahs, operate in addition to the Grand Union, the Iri quois at Buffalo. N. Y.. and Hotel Ma rie Antoinette, Broadway, 66th-to 67th. Street, New York City, Booklet on ie quest, . 10-8-2t-aw-6t (Copyright, 1906, by Mary D, Wilkms-Freeman. All rights Reserved) CHAPTER XV. James sat as if turned to stone All In a second he realized what it must be. He - let Clemency's harifL go, and leaned back in his chah "What do you mean, Clemency?" he-asked filially, but he realized how senseless the-cues? tion was. He knew ; perfectly well what she meant, and he knew perfect ly' well that he was utterly helpless before her-accusation. ..; "You- know," said Clemency, still in her unnatural hard voice. "You killed her." ; . . "How?" "You know. You gave her more mor phine, and her heart was weak. Em ma overheard Uncle Tom say so, and that more morphine was dangerous. She might have been alive to-day if it had not been for you." ' James sat staring at the girl. She went on pitilessly. "You did. not see Emma that last time you came up stairs,", she said, "but she saw you. She was standing in the door of the room, and she had no light. She saw you and Mrs. Blair-going away from her room, and she heard Mrs. Blair tell you she was dead. You killed her. I want nothing whatever to do with a murderer." . . James remembered that draught of cold air. It must have come from the open door of Emma's room at the end of the hall. He understood that Em ma could not have seen him coming upstairs, but that she had seen him with Mrs. Blair at the door of the1 sickroom; and had jumped at her con clusion. ; "Emma knew when you went up stairs first," said Clemency. You left her door a little ajar. Emma saw you give her a hypodermic. And. then when that did not kill heryou gave her another. Uncle Tom did not know. He must never know, for it would kill him, but you did kill her;'1: James was silent for a moment. He realized the impossibility of clearing himself from the accusation unless h'e told the whole truth and implicated Doctor Gordon. Finally he said, mis erably enough, "You don't know how horribly she was suffering, dear. You don't know what torments she would have had to suffer." He knew when he said that that he incriminated himself. - Clemency re torted iimmediately, " You don't know; I have heard Uncle Tom say thatvmo body can ever- know. She might have gotten well.v Anyway, you killed her." With that. Clemency sprang up and .ran. out-, of the room, and James ' herd.'Jier sob; : ' '' ' ' ,-. i As for himself, he remained . where he was for a long-time. He never knew how. long. He felt numb. He realized himself to be in a great gulf of misunderstanding,' from which he could not ' ; be extricated, even for the sake of Clemency.5 It seemed to him . again that he must go away, but he remembered . Gordon's pitiful plea to him to remain. Finally he went into his room, to find that Emma, in her absurd malice, had left only the coverlid on the bed. She had stripped it of the sheets and blankets. He lay down with his clothes on and passed a sleepless night. - ; And the next morning at the breakfast-table he looked haggard and pale. He could eat nothing; Doctor Gordon looked at him keenly. ' "What is the matter. Elliot?" he asked. . Clemency gave a quick glance at him,-and her face worked. - - "Nothing," replied James'. "You look downright ill." ; "I am not ill." Clemency rose abruptly and left the table. ' "What is the matter. Clemency? Where are you going?". Gordon called out. "I have finished my breakfast," the girl . replied in a stifled voice. Gordon insisted on making some calls that morning, and , relieving James. "You are worn out, my son," he said in a voice of real affection, and clapped him on the shoulder. He he took leave, and James made an sent James on a short: round in spite excuse to follow him out- In the drive of his objectionsr and the consequence Georgie K. took James by the arm, and was that James reached home half an the young man felt him trimble. "What hour before luncheon.' , ails him?" asked Georgie K. , It was a beautiful morning. Spring "I hardly know," James replied in seemed to have come with, a winged a whisper. leap. A faint down of green shaded "I know." said Georgie K. By the the elms, and there was a pink cloud light from the office window James of peach bloom in the distance. The could see that the man was actually cherry, trees were swollen almost to weeping. His great ruddy face was blossom, and the apple trees had pale streaming with tears. "Don't I know?" radiances in the' glanee of thesun. The he sobbed. grass was quite green, and here and there were dandelions.' Clemency was out in the yard, working in a little flower-garden, as James drove in. She had on a black dress, and -her fair head was uncovered. She pretended not to see James, but he hardly entered the office before she came in. Her face was all suffused with pink. She looked at him tenderly and angrily. "Are you ill?" she said, in an in dignant voice which had, in spite of herself, soft ; cadences. . "No, Clemency." "Then why do you look so?" she demanded. . V James turned at that.. "Clemency, you acuse me of cruelty," he said, "but you your self are cruel. You do not realize that you cannot tell a man he is a murderer, and throw him over when he loves you, and-, yet have him utterly unmoved." Suddenly Clemency was In his arms. "I love you, I" love you," she sobbed. "Don't be unhappy, don't lo6k so. It breaks my heart. I love you, I do love you, dear. I can't marry you, but I love you." "If you lovp mey you can marry me." Clemency 'shrank, away, . then she clung to him again. "No," she said, "I can't get over the thought of It. I can't help it, but I do love you. We will go on just the same as ever, only we will not get married. You know we were not going to get married just yet anyaway. I love you. We will go on just the same. Only don't look the way you did this morning at break fast." "How did I look?" "As if your heart was broken." ' "So it is, dear." "No, it is not. I love you, I tell you. What is the need , of bothering about marriage anyway? I am perfectly hap py being engaged. Annie says she is never going to get married. Let the marriage alone. Only you won't look so anymore, will you, dear?" CHAPTER XVI. After this James encountered a strange state of things: the semblance of happiness, which almost deceived him as to its. reality. Clemency was as loving as she had ever been. "I knew the child could never hold out, and it was Annie Lip to," he said. James admitted that An nie Lipton might have been the straw which turned the balance. He knew that Clemency had not told Gordon of her : convection that he had given the final dose of morphine to her aunt. Everything now went on as before. Clemency suddenly became awake to ' Emma's. ' petty persecutions of .'James, and they ceased. James one day could not help overhearing- a conversation between the two. He was in the sta ble and the' kitchen' windows were open. He -heard' only a few words. "You don't mean tO' say you are goin to hey him?" said Emma In her stri dent voice. "No, I am not," returned Clemency's sweet, decided one. "What be you goin with him again for then?" ; - James . knew how the girl blushed at that, but she answered with spirit. "That, is entirely my. own affair, Em ma," she said, "and as long as Doctor Elliot remains under this . roof, and pays for it, too, he must be treated de cently. You don't pass him things, you don't fill his lamp. Now you must treat him exactly as you did before, or I shall tell .Uncle Tom." "You won't tell him why ?" said Em ma,' and; there, was alarm In her' voice, for she adored Gordon. - -"Did yon ever know me to go from one to another in such a way?" asked Clemency. "You know if I told Uncle Tom, he would not put tup' with it . a minute. He thinks' the world of Doc tor Elliot." " ' . "It's awful queer how men folks can be imDOsed on." said Emma. . ? "That has r nothing to do with it," Clemency sajd. ''You must treat Doc tor Elliot respectfully, Emma." "I'm jest as good as he be," said Emma resentfully. "Well, what If you are? He's as good as you, isn't he? And he treats you civilly. He always has." I'm a sood deal better than he be," Emma went on Irascibly. "I wouldn't have gone and went, and " "Hush!" ordered Clemency in a frightened voice. "Emma, you must do as I say." . James drove out of the yard and heard no morel but after that he had no fault to find with Emma, so far as her service was concerned. It is true that she gave- him malignant glances, but she made him comfortable, albeit unwillingly. It was fortunate for him that she 'did so. or he would have found his position almost unbear able. Doctor Gordon relaxed again in to" his state of apathetic gloom. His strength also seemed to wane. Almost the whole practice devolved upon James. Gordon seemed less and less interested even in extreme cases. Georgie K. also lost his power over him. Now and then of an evening ho came, but Gordon, save to offer him as cigar, took scarcely any notice of him. One evening Georgie K. made a motion to James behind Gordon's back when James remembered the stuffed ca nary, and the wax flowers, and the story Gordon had told him of Georgie K.'s grief over his wife's death. "I dare say you are right," he re turned. "He's breakin' his heart, that's what he's doin," said Georgie K. "Can't you get him to go away for a change Or somethin'?" "I have tried." "He'll die of it," Georgie K. said with a great gulp as he went out of the j'ard. When James reentered the office Gordon looked up at him. "That poor old fellow called you out to talk about me," he said quietly. "I "know I'm go ing downhill." "For heaven's sake, can't you go up, doctor?" "No, I am done for. I could get over losing her, but I can't get over what you know what." "But her death was Inevitable, and greater agony was inevitable." Gordon turned upon him fiercely, "When you have been as long in this cursed profession as I have," he said, "you will realize that nothing is inev itable. She might have recovered for all I know. ) That woman, at Turner Hill,.' who I -though was dying six
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