The Face of Rosenfeld — page 192: what you’re looking at

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—_ THE FACH OF ROSENFEL. 185 sald he, ‘I want to know if you can tell the compara- tive age of a scar on the human body?’ To so very vague and general a question, I told him I certainly could give him no satisfactory answer. ‘ Very well,’ said he, ‘I will postpone my question until after I have pre- sented my case. I want you to get into my carriage. I will then take you to a place where there is a scar which I wish to have examined. I shall introduce you under a false name and it is not to be known that you are a physician. All you have to do is to assent to everything I say, and when I show you the scar scrutinize it as closely as you can. Afterward I shall ask you for your opinion. Iwill tell you,” he went on, ‘that this is a most important case, and that you are only one of sev- eral prominent physicians whose opinions are to be asked. We wish, and intend, to make this matter as much of a certainty, and to have it partake as little of the nature of guess work as medical science will permit. I do not want to conceal anything from you, however. There is a bare possibility that at some time or other you may be called upon as an expert to repeat the opin- lon which you shall give me, in court. If so, we shall see that you are amply recompensed for any loss of time, or interference with your business that such a necessity would occasion. And in view of this possibility, I wish you to recollect just how this matter was presented by me to you, and that so far from endeavoring to control your . opinion, I have not even told you whether it would be for our interest to find this scar to be old or recent ‘ Why what is the trouble, Fostelle? You are pale. Is your faintness coming on again?” With a sudden effort, Mrs. Forsythe overcame the emotion which had made itself so dangerously apparent Ss comi € ofefe) % 4 »* io ; ~ ~ eu ie mp e (ele) Soe . ? <-, Caan © ; es ef A; vel + ot ee Soe rx j Pe |