If all of you love him as you prove you do, and there is unlimited means to give him anything he wants, why should he desire death ?" "Is he dying ?" demanded McLean.
"He is," said the surgeon.

"He will not live this day out, unless some strong reaction sets in at once.

He is so low, that preferring death to life, nature cannot overcome his inertia.

If he is to live, he must be made to desire life.

Now he undoubtedly wishes for death, and that it come quickly." "Then he must die," said McLean.
His broad shoulders shook convulsively.