"Right here." The other man nodded--his head seemed to be nodding continually--and muttered: "Yes.

There's no possibility of operating." "Of course not," said the old specialist, his eyes shining with a kind of sinister irony.

"There's only one thing that could remove it--the guillotine.

Besides, the malignant condition has spread.

There is pressure upon the submaxillary and subclavicular ganglia, and probably the axillary ganglia also.