Now, Monsignor, kindly loosen your waistcoat, so that I can get at your breast and back." "Is it a stethoscope ?" "Something like it," smiled the doctor.

"But how did you know that name?
Never mind.

Now then, please." He placed the camera affair on the corner of the table near the arm-chair; and then, very rapidly, began to affix the discs--it seemed by some process of air-exhaustion--all over the head, breast, and back of the amazed man.

No sensation followed this at all, except the very faint feeling of skin-contraction at each point of contact.
"May I have that blind down, your Eminence?
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