“Yes. Severe contusions, and a rib broken and pressed upon the lungs. I replaced and set it. Will you see?”
“If you please.”
He examined and felt the patient, and said it had been ably done.
Then he was silent and searching.
At last he spoke again. “The motion of the thumbs corresponds exactly with his pulse.”
“Is that so, sir?”
“It is. The case is without a parallel. How long has he been so?”
“Nearly a week.”
“Impossible!”
“It is so, sir.”