"Yes," said Joseph Bridau, "he has reached a height that we cannot so much as see."
"We are to be pitied, not Louis," said Fulgence Ridal.
"Perhaps he will recover," exclaimed Lucien.
"From what Meyraux has been telling us, recovery seems impossible," answered Bianchon. "Medicine has no power over the change that is working in his brain."
"Yet there are physical means," said d'Arthez.
"Yes," said Bianchon; "we might produce imbecility instead of catalepsy."
"Is there no way of offering another head to the spirit of evil? I would give mine to save him!" cried Michel Chrestien.
"And what would become of European federation?" asked d'Arthez.
"Ah! true," replied Michel Chrestien. "Our duty to Humanity comes first; to one man afterwards."
"I came here with a heart full of gratitude to you all," said Lucien.
"You have changed my alloy into golden coin."