He let her lie there in agony for a few minutes, and then put the request again.
This time there was no answer.
The victim of this yellow fiend was almost past speech.
"Go it again!" thundered the doctor.
"You fiend!" cried Alice. "Release that woman or I'll do something desperate. In the name of humanity! In the name of your mother! Dr. Garshaski, forbear!"
"Interfere at your peril!" thundered the doctor, and as he spoke the screw was turned once again.
If Alice had been in possession of her revolver she surely would have shot the fiend, but that had long ago been taken from her.
Helplessly she turned her head away, stopping her ears that she might not hear the cries which the wretched Chinese woman could no longer keep back.
But the cries suddenly ceased.
"She has fainted," said the torturer.