He'll be back in half an hour to report." Monsignor leaned back in his chair.
"And you tell me that the optic nerves were destroyed ?" The monk looked at him in wide-eyed wonder.
"Certainly.

He was examined on Tuesday, when he came.
To-day's Friday." "And you believe he'll be cured ?" "I shall be very much surprised if he's not." There was a stir by the door as the Russian disappeared.

A young, bright-eyed doctor looked in and nodded, and the next instant a brancardier appeared, followed by a litter.
"But how have you time to examine all these thousands of cases ?" asked the prelate, watching the litter advance.
"Oh, not one in a hundred comes through to us here.

Besides, this is only one of a dozen committee-rooms.

It's only the most sensational cases--where there's real organic injury of a really serious kind--that ever come at all before the highest courts.