"
"And you have had that impulse almost all the time ever since? Answer
me, tell me the truth! I am right, am I not?"
Now again he laughed softly at her.
"Virginia Page, the medico, speaks," he returned lightly. "She has a
theory. A man may have such an accident, leaving such and such
pressure on the brain, with the result that he becomes a thief or
worse! Virginia . . ."
"Theory! It is no theory. It is an established, undeniable, and
undenied fact! It has occurred time and again, physicians have
observed, have made cures! Can't you see now, Rod Norton? Won't you
see?"
She was upon her feet, her hands clasped before her, her eyes shining,
her figure tense, her cheeks stained with the color of her excitement.
"I don't care whether Patten is a physician or not," she ran on. "He
is a bungler. It is a sheer wonder he did not let you die. You told
me yourself that he attributed the second wound to your fall and that
you knew that Moraga had struck you a terrible blow with his
gun-barrel. Patten did not treat that wound; he cared for the lesser
injury like a fool and allowed the major one to take care of itself.
And the result . . . Oh, dear God! Think of what might have happened.
If any one but me had learned what I have learned to-night."
He rose with her, stood still, regarding her with eyes like drills.
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