There I was
busy for some time getting restoratives.
Meanwhile Kennedy, beside the couch, with an air of desperate
determination, turned away and opened a cabinet. From it he took a
large coil and attached it to a storage battery, dragging the
peculiar apparatus near Elaine's couch.
To an electric light socket, Craig attached wires. The doctor
watched him in silent wonder.
"Doctor," he asked slowly as he worked, "do you know of Professor
Leduc of the Nantes Ecole de Medicin?"
"Why--yes," answered the doctor, "but what of him?"
"Then you know of his method of electrical resuscitation."
"Yes--but--" He paused, looking apprehensively at Kennedy.
Craig paid no attention to his fears, but approaching the couch on
which Elaine lay, applied the electrodes. "You see," he explained,
with forced calmness, "I apply the anode here--the cathode there."
The ambulance surgeon looked on excitedly, as Craig turned on the
current, applying it to the back of the neck and to the spine.
For some minutes the machine worked.
Then the young doctor's eyes began to bulge.
"My heavens!" he cried under his breath. "Look!"
Elaine's chest had slowly risen and fallen. Kennedy, his attention
riveted on his work, applied himself with redoubled efforts. The
young doctor looked on with increased wonder.
"Look! The color in her face! See her lips!" he cried.
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