It may be that I shall have to take steps to rouse him." At the next visit Dr.Green looked somewhat anxious as he listened to the boy's breathing and saw how strongly he was under the influence of the narcotic.
"Under any other circumstances," he said to the chief constable, who had entered the room with him, "I should take strong measures to arouse him at once, but as it is I will risk it.

I know it is a risk both for him and me, for a nice scrape I should get in if he slipped through my fingers; but unless he gets sleep I believe his brain will go, and anything is better than that." "Yes, poor lad," the officer said.

"When I look at his face I confess my sympathies are all with him rather than with the man he killed." "I don't think he killed him," the doctor said quietly.

"I am almost sure he didn't." "You don't say so!" the chief constable said, surprised.

"I had not the least doubt about it." "No.