It was, however, an hour later when they returned with a doctor, and he looked grave after he had examined his patient.
"Your husband has two ribs broken," he told Mrs.Lansing.

"In a way, that's not very serious, but he seems to be prostrated by the shock.
There are a few things that must be done at once; and then we'll have to keep him as quiet as possible." It was two hours later when he left the house, promising to return early the next day with a nurse; and Herbert lay, still and unconscious, in a dimly lighted room..