Meanwhile Kennedy, beside the couch, with an air of desperate determination, turned away and opened a cabinet. From it he took a large coil and attached it to a storage battery, dragging the peculiar apparatus near Elaine's couch.
To an electric light socket, Craig attached wires. The doctor watched him in silent wonder.
"Doctor," he asked slowly as he worked, "do you know of Professor Leduc of the Nantes Ecole de Medicin?"
"Why—yes," answered the doctor, "but what of him?"
"Then you know of his method of electrical resuscitation."
"Yes—but—" He paused, looking apprehensively at Kennedy.
Craig paid no attention to his fears, but approaching the couch on which Elaine lay, applied the electrodes. "You see," he explained, with forced calmness, "I apply the anode here—the cathode there."
The ambulance surgeon looked on excitedly, as Craig turned on the current, applying it to the back of the neck and to the spine.
For some minutes the machine worked.
Then the young doctor's eyes began to bulge.