Go on back to your murdering old machine." He climbed into his car, which he operated himself, but he refrained from setting it immediately in motion.

"Well, I rubbed it in on the old man that you had warned him not to slide his hand along too far, and that he got hurt because he didn't pay attention to your warning, and because he was trying to show you how to do something you were already doing a great deal better than he could.

You tell him I'll be around to look at it and change the dressing to-morrow morning.

Good-by." But when he paid the promised visit, the next morning, he did more than change the dressing upon the damaged hand.

The injury was severe of its kind, and Gurney spent a long time over it, though Sheridan was rebellious and scornful, being brought to a degree of tractability only by means of horrible threats and talk of amputation.