5/27 Now don't deny it, for I saw you outside myself. I'll send the Wardmaster to the guard-house for that." "But, Doctor, it wasn't his fault," gasped the sick man, painfully. "I begged so hard to go out that he couldn't refuse me. It was so hot in here and smelled so badly, that I felt I should die unless I got a breath of fresh air." "Silence!" thundered the Surgeon; "I'll have no talking back to me. Steward, double his prescription, and if he shows the least resistance to taking it, have the nurses hold him and force it down his throat. |