But he said, “Why, it could of course be done.”
“There is the question of an eye available.”
“You mean you wonder about a transfer. It is strange, but even though we are so different,” Ren said, “our eyes are identical in structure.”
Dr. Weatherby went into further details concerning the complications of Dolores’ blindness, but Ren shrugged away its import. “It can be done,” he repeated. “And there is a man who will give us the missing link. Loro, a criminal who must die. He is repentant now. At his trials he pleaded that he might live long enough to expiate his crimes.
“Loro will volunteer. I know it.”
VII
THE SACRIFICE
“Are you sure she will see when they take the bandages off?”
“I think she will, Alice. They say she will.”
“But we don’t know. I wish she’d awaken. We can take the bandage off then, can’t we?”
“Yes. Dr. Weatherby will do it.”