He came over to them at once.
"Your friend may live," he announced, "but in any case he will be unconscious for the next twenty-four hours.

There is no need for you to stay, or for you to fetch the young lady you spoke of, at present.

If he dies, he will die unconscious.

I can tell you nothing more until the afternoon." Hunterleys rose slowly to his feet.
"You'll do everything you can, doctor ?" he begged.

"Money doesn't count." "Money never counts here," the doctor replied gravely.