The Price He Paid — page 196: what you’re looking at

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A SICK-BED CONFESSION. 187 castle, Fraulein Moser should take her part in the work of succor, and,her proposal to have Dr. Brun- now, whose case was by far the worst, carried to her father’s room, where she could attend to him herself, met with prompt and cordial acceptance. The governor had given an order that every care and attention were to be shown the injured men, and more especially the young doctor, who had so nearly lost his life in the exercise of his professional duty, and surely he could be entrusted to no better hands than these. His precarious condition would oblige him to remain at the castle for the present, while the two policemen, whose injuries were of a less serious nature, might be transported to the town on the following day. The major-domo caught at the chance of fulfilling his master’s instructions so precisely. But the councilor was by no means so satisfied with the position of affairs. He worked himself into afury on seeing this treasonable patient in- stalled in his home, and insisted on his immediate removal. Here, however, he was met by a resis- tance as decided as hisown. For the first time in her life the gentle, quiet Agnes displayed an un- yielding obstinacy, refusing absolutely to obey her father in this matter; and as that determined per- son, Frau Christine, declared herself on the side of her young mistress, Moser was out-voted and van- quished. He was given to understand that a man so dangerously ill could not be moved without risk to his life, and that he who turned him out of doors © would incur the guilt of manslaughter; and the councilor at length seemed to grasp the truth of this reasoning, but it did not lessen his despair. Raven promised to shield the councilor from any — doubts onthe score of his loyalty, and even de- clared that he would send round his own physician to the patient. It was incumbent on them, he said, to show all interest in the young doctor, who had behaved with so much courage and proper feeling. The councilor was fain to submit to this high authority, but he did so with a heavy heart. On the third morning after Max Brunnow’s ac- Eomichboo gs) (E(0)