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 whether the action was observed; but the physician either did not see or purposely ignored what the other had done, his attention being riveted on the man so grievously in need of his utmost skill. As with the aid of his rough companion Philip busied himself over the wounded man, his thoughts reverted to a scene not unlike this one. He half expected to see the face of Jean Thoron, of his young colleague, of Therese, beside him as he turned from the wounded man; but he was alone with the dago.

There was one more point of difference in the case,—Fernand Thoron had been doomed to die from the first, and the man who had killed him had one chance of life left.