The temptation was almost too strong.
After a while the sick man became quieter, but he still refused to take the opiate.

He closed his eyes and made no answer to Guy's repeated supplication.

Finally he ceased shaking his head in negation, and at last breathed regularly like a child asleep.
Afterwards Guy Oscard reproached himself for suspecting nothing.

But he knew nothing of brain diseases--those strange maladies that kill the human in the human being.

He knew, however, why his father had tried to kill himself.