But one day there was a terrible railway accident on a construction train, and Lebanon and Manitou made a call upon his skill, and held him in bondage to his profession for one whole month.

During this time he performed two operations which the surgeons who had been sent out by the Railway Directors at Montreal declared were masterpieces.
When that month was up he was a changed man, and he opened an office in Lebanon.

Men trusted him despite his past, and women learned that there was never a moment when his pulses beat unevenly in their presence.
Nathan Rockwell had had his lesson and it was not necessary to learn it again.

To him, woman, save as a subject of his skill, was a closed book.
He regarded them as he regarded himself, with a kindly cynicism.

He never forgot that his own trouble could and would have been avoided had it not been for woman's vanity and consequent cruelty.