Having no knowledge of surgery, Cabot could only bathe and rebandage it.

Then he said: "Now, I am going to be your nurse, and you must lie perfectly still without attempting to get up again until I give you leave." Seeing an expression of dissent in the man's face, he continued: "It's all right.

I am under the greatest of obligations to you, and am only too glad of a chance to pay some of it back.

So I shall stay right here just as long as you need me.

Fortunately I know something about both electricity and machinery, having been educated at a technical institute, so that I shall be able to manage very well with your plant.