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the case of lady sanics the relations
between douglas stone and the notorious
lady sanics were very well known both
among the fashionable circles of which
she was a brilliant member and the
scientific bodies which numbered him
among their most illustrious confreres
there was naturally therefore a very
widespread interest when it was
announced one morning that the lady had
absolutely and forever taken the veil
and that the world would see her no more
when at the very tail of this rumor
there came the assurance that the
celebrated operating surgeon the man of
steel nerves had been found in the
morning by his valet seated on one side
of his bed smiling pleasantly upon the
universe with both legs jammed into one
side of his breeches and his great brain
about as valuable as a cap full of
porridge the matter was strong enough to
give quite a little thrill of interest
to folk who had never hoped that their
jaded nerves were capable of such a
sensation douglas stone in his prime was
one of the most remarkable men in
england indeed he could hardly be said
to have ever reached his prime for he
was but nine and thirty at the time of
this little incident those who knew him
best were aware that famous as he was as
a surgeon he might have succeeded with
even greater rapidity in any of a dozen
lines of life he could have cut his way
to fame as a soldier struggled to it as
an explorer bullied forage in the courts
or built it out of stone and iron as an
engineer he was born to be great for he
could plan what another man dare not do
and he could do what another man dare
not plan in surgery none could follow
him
his nerve his judgment his intuition
were things apart again and again his
knife cut away death but grazed the very
springs of life in doing it until his
assistants were as white as the patient
his energy his or
dacite his full-blooded self-confidence
does not the memory of them still linger
to the south of Marylebone Road and
north of Oxford Street his vices were as
magnificent as his virtues and
infinitely more picturesque largest was
his income and it was the third largest
of all professional men in London it was
far beneath the luxury of his living
deep in his complex nature lay a rich
vein of sensualism at the sport of which
he placed all the prizes of his life the
eye the ear the touch the palate all
were his masters the bouquet of old
vintages the scent of rare exotics the
curves and tints of the daintiest
Potteries of Europe it was to these that
the quick running stream of gold was
transformed and then there came his
sudden mad passion for ladies sanics
when a single interview with two
challenging glances and a whispered word
set him ablaze she was the loveliest
woman in London and the only one to him
he was one of the handsomest men in
London but not the only one to her she
had a liking for new experiences and was
gracious to most men who whoo - it may
have been cause or it may have been
effect and that Lord sanics looked 50
though he was but six and thirty he was
a quiet silent neutral-tinted man this
Lord with thin lips and heavy eyelids
much given to gardening and full of
home-like habits he had at one time been
fond of acting had even rented a theater
in London and on its boards had first
seen miss Marion Dawson to whom he had
offered his hand his title and the third
of a county since his marriage his early
hobby had become distasteful to him even
in private theatricals it was no longer
possible to persuade him to exercise the
talent which he had often shown that he
possessed he was happier with
spud and a watering can among his
orchids and chrysanthemums it was quite
an interesting problem whether he was
absolutely devoid of sense or miserably
wanting in spirit did he know his lady's
ways and condoned them was he a mere
blind doting fool it was a point to be
discussed over the tea cups in snug
little drawing rooms or with the aid of
a cigar in the bow windows of clubs
bitter and plain were the comments among
men upon his conduct there was but one
who had a good word to say for him and
he was the most silent member in the
smoking-room he had seen him break in a
horse at the University and it seemed to
have left an impression upon his mind
but when Douglas stone became the
favorite all doubts as to Lord sanics
his knowledge or ignorant were set
forever at rest there was no subterfuge
about stone in his high-handed impetuous
fashion he set all caution and
discretion at defiance the scandal
became notorious a learning body
intimated that his name had been struck
from the list of its vice presidents two
friends implored him to consider his
professional credit he cursed them all
three and spent forty guineas on a
bangle to take with him to the lady he
was at her house every evening and she
drove in his carriage in the afternoons
there was not an attempt on either side
to conceal their relations that there
came at last a little incident to
interrupt them it was a dismal winter's
night very cold and gusty with the wind
whipping in the chimneys and blustering
against the window panes a thin spatter
of rain tinkled on the glass with each
fresh sow of the Gale drowning for the
instant the dull gurgle and drip from
the eaves Douglas stone had finished his
dinner and sat by his fire in the study
a glass of rich port upon the malachite
table at his
beau as he raised it to his lips he held
it up against the lamplight and watched
with the eye of a connoisseur the tiny
scales of bees wing which floated in its
rich ruby depths the fire as it spurted
up through fitful lights upon his bold
clear-cut face with its widely opened
grey eyes it's thick and yet firm lips
and the deep square jaw which had
something Roman in its strength and its
animalism he smiled from time to time as
he nestled back in his luxurious chair
indeed he had a right to feel well
pleased for against the advice of six
colleagues he had performed an operation
that day of which only two cases were on
record and the result had been brilliant
beyond all expectation no other man in
London would have had the daring to plan
or the skill to execute such a heroic
measure but he had promised lady sanics
to see her that evening and it was
already half past eight his hand was
outstretched to the Bell to order the
carriage when he heard the dull thud of
the knocker an instant later there was
the shuffling of feet in the hall and
the sharp closing of a door a patient to
see you sir
in the consulting room said the butler
about himself no sir I think he wants
you to go out it is too late
cried Douglas stone peevishly I won't go
this is his card sir the butler
presented it upon the gold salver which
had been given to his master by the wife
of a prime minister emile alle
hmm the fellow is a Turk I suppose yes
sir
he seems as if he came from abroad sir
and he's in a terrible way Tut's heart I
have an engagement I must go somewhere
else but I'll see him show him in here
PIM a few moments late
to the butler Swan opened the door and
ushered in a small and decrepit man who
walked with a bent back and with the
forward push of the face and blink of
the eyes which goes with extreme short
sight
his face was swarthy and his hair and
beard of the deepest black in one hand
he held a turban of white muslin striped
with red in the other a small ShamWow
leather bag good evening said Douglas
stone when the butler had closed the
door you speak English
I presume yes sir I am from Asia Minor
but I speak English when I speak slow he
wanted me to go out I understand yes sir
I wanted very much that you should see
my wife I could come in the morning but
I have an engagement which prevents me
from seeing your wife tonight
the Turks answer was a singular one he
pulled the string which closed the mouth
of the ShamWow leather bag and poured a
flood of gold onto the table there are
100 pounds there said he and I promise
you that it will not take you an hour I
have a cab ready at the door
Douglas stone glanced at his watch an
hour would not make it too late to visit
lady sanics he had been there later and
the fee he was an extraordinarily high
one he had been pressed by his creditors
lately and he could not afford to let
such a chance pass he would go what is
the case he asked oh it is so sad a1 so
sad a one you have not perhaps heard of
the daggers of the alma Hadi's never ah
they are Eastern daggers of a great age
and of a singular shape with the hilts
like what you call a stirrup I am a
curiosity dealer you understand and that
is why I have come to England from
Smyrna but next week I go back once more
many things I brought with me and I have
a few things left but among them to my
sorrow is one of these daggers you will
remember that I have an appointment sir
said
surgeon with some irritation pray
confine yourself to the necessary
details you will see that it is
necessary today my wife fell down in a
faint in the room in which I keep my
wares and she cut her lower lip upon
this cursed dagger of the Alma Hadees I
see said Douglas stone rising and you
wish me to dress the wound no no it is
worse than that what then
these daggers are poisoned poisoned yes
and there is no man east or west who can
tell now what is the poison or what is
the cure but all that is known I know
for my father was in this trade before
me and we have had much to do with these
poisoned weapons what are the symptoms
deep sleep and death in 30 hours and you
say there is no cure why then should you
pay me this considerable fee no drug can
cure but the knife may and how the
poison is slow of absorption it remains
for hours in the wound washing then
might cleanse it no more than in a
snakebite it is too subtle and too
deadly excision of the wound then that
is it if it be on the finger take the
finger off so said my father always but
think of where this wound is and that it
is my wife it is dreadful
but familiarity with such grim matters
may take the finer edge from a man
sympathy to Douglass stone this was
already an interesting case and he
brushed aside as irrelevant the feeble
objections of the husband it appears to
be that or nothing
said he brusque Lee it is better to lose
a lip than a life are yes I know that
you are right well well it is kismet and
it must be faced I have the cab and you
will come with me and do this thing
Douglas stone took his case of mysteries
from a drawer and placed it with a roll
of bandage and a comp
of lint in his pocket he must waste no
more time if he was to see lady sanics
I'm ready said he pulling on his
overcoat will you take a glass of wine
before you go out into this cold air his
visitor shrank away with a protesting
hand upraised you'll forget that I am a
muscle man and a true follower of the
Prophet said he but tell me what is the
bottle of green glass which you have
placed in your pocket it is chloroform
ah that also is forbidden to us it is a
spirit and we make no use of such things
what you would allow your wife to go
through an operation without an
anesthetic or she will feel nothing poor
soul the deep sleep has already come on
which is the first working of the poison
and then I have given her of our Smyrna
opium come sir for already an hour has
passed and they stepped out into the
darkness a sheet of rain was driven in
upon their faces and the whole lamp
which dangled from the arm of a marble
Caryatid went out with a fluff him
the butler pushed the heavy door to
straining hard with his shoulder against
the wind while the two men groped their
way towards the yellow glare which
showed where the cab was waiting an
instant later they were rattling upon
their journey is it far
asked Douglas stone oh no we have very
little quiet place of the Euston Road
the surgeon pressed the spring of his
repeater and listen to the little Tings
which told him the hour it was a quarter
past nine he calculated the distances
and the short time which it would take
him to perform so trivial and operation
he ought to reach lady sanics by ten
o'clock through the fogged Windows he
saw the blurred gas lamps dancing past
with occasionally the broader glare of a
shopfront the rain was pelting and
rattling upon the levin top of the
carriage and the wheels washed as they
rolled through puddle and mud
opposite to him the white headgear of
his companion gleamed faintly through
the obscurity the surgeon felt in his
pockets and arranged his needles his
ligatures and his safety pins that no
time might be wasted when they arrived
he chafed with impatience and drummed
his foot upon the floor but the cab
slowed down at last and pulled up in an
instant
Douglas stone was out and the Smyrna
merchants toe was at his very heel you
can wait
said he to the driver it was a
mean-looking house in a narrow and
sordid Street the surgeon who knew his
London well cast a swift glance into the
shadows but there was nothing
distinctive no shop no movement nothing
but a double line of dull flat faced
houses a double stretch of wet flag
stones which gleamed in the lamplight
and a double rush of water in the
gutters which swirled and gurgled
towards the sewer gratings the door
which faced them was blocked and
discolored and a faint light in the fan
pane above it served to show the dust
and the grime which covered it above in
one of the bedroom windows there was a
dull yellow glimmer with a merchant
knocked loudly and as he turned his dark
face towards the light Douglas stone
could see that it was contracted with
anxiety a bolt was drawn and an elderly
woman with a taper stood in the doorway
shielding the thin flame with her
gnarled hand he's all well gasped the
merchant she is as you left her sir she
has not spoken now she's in a deep sleep
the merchant closed the door and
ductless stone walked down the narrow
passage glancing about him in some
surprise as he did so there was no oil
cloth no Matt no hat rack deep gray dust
and heavy force tombs of cobwebs met his
eyes everywhere following the old woman
up the winding stair
his firm footfall echoed harshly through
the silent house there was no carpet the
bedroom was on the second landing
Douglas stone followed the old nurse
into it with the merchant at his heels
here at last there was furniture and to
spare the floor was littered and the
corners piled with Turkish cabinets
inlaid tables hopes of chainmail strange
pipes and grotesque weapons a single
small lamp stood upon a bracket on the
wall
Douglas stone took it down and picking
his way among the lumber walked over to
a couch in the corner on which lay a
woman dressed in the Turkish fashion
with yashmak and veil the lower part of
the face was exposed and the surgeon saw
a jagged cut which is exact along the
border of the under lip you will forgive
the yashmak
said the Turk you know our views about
the women in the east but the surgeon
was not thinking about the yashmak this
was no longer a woman to him it was a
case he stooped and examined the wound
carefully there are no signs of
irritation said he we might delay the
operation until local symptoms develop
the husband wrung his hands in
uncontrollable agitation Oh sir sir he
cried do not trifle you do not know it
is deadly I know and I'll give you my
assurance that an operation is
absolutely necessary only the knife can
save her and yet I am inclined to wait
said Douglas stone that is enough the
Turk cried angrily every minute is of
importance and I cannot stand here and
see my wife allowed to sink it only
remains for me to give you my thanks for
having come and to call in some other
surgeon before it is too late
Douglas stone hesitated to refund that
hundred pounds was no pleasant matter
but of course if he left the case
he must return the money and if the Turk
were right and the woman died his
position before a coroner might be an
embarrassing one you have had personal
experience of this poison he asked I
have and you assure me that an operation
is needful I swear it by all that I hold
sacred the disfigurement will be
frightful I can understand that the
mouth will not be a pretty one to kiss
Douglas stone turned fiercely upon the
man the speech was a brutal one but the
Turk has his own fashion of talk and of
thought and there was no time for
wrangling Douglas stone drew abyss story
from his case opened it and felt the
Keen straight edge with his forefinger
then he held the lamp closer to the bed
to dark eyes were gazing up at him
through the slit in the ashmac they were
all iris and the pupil was hardly to be
seen you have given her a very heavy
dose of opium yes she has heard a good
dose he glanced again at the dark eyes
which looked straight at his own they
were dull and lustreless but even as he
gazed a little shifting Sparkle came
into them and the lips quivered she is
not absolutely unconscious said he would
it not be well to use the knife while it
will be painless the same thought had
crossed the surgeons mind he grasped the
wounded lip with his forceps and with
two swift cuts he took out a broad
v-shaped piece the woman sprang up on
the couch with a dreadful gurgling
scream a covering was torn from her face
it was a face that he knew in spite of
that protruding upper lip and that
slobber of blood it was a face that he
knew she kept
putting her hand up to the gap and
screaming douglass stone sat down at the
foot of the couch with his knife and his
forceps the room was whirling round and
he had felt something go like a ripping
seam behind his ear
a bystander would have said that his
face was the more ghastly of the two as
in a dream or as if he had been looking
at something at the play he was
conscious that the Turks hair and beard
lay upon the table and that Lord sanics
was leaning against the wall with his
hand to his side laughing silently the
screams had died away now and the
dreadful head had dropped back again
upon the pillow but Douglas stone still
sat motionless and Lord sanics still
chuckled quietly to himself it was
really very necessary for Marion this
operation said he not physically but
morally you know morally Douglas stone
stooped forwards and began to play with
the fringe of the coverlet his knife
tinkled down upon the ground but he
still held the forceps and something
more I had long intended to make a
little example said Lord sanics suavely
your note of Wednesday miscarried and I
have it here in my pocketbook
I took some pains in carrying out my
idea the wound by the way was from
nothing more dangerous than my signet
ring he glanced keenly at his silent
companion and cocked the small revolver
which he held in his coat pocket
our Douglas stone was still picking at
the coverlet you see you have kept your
appointment after all said Lord sanics
and at
at Douglass stone began to laugh he
laughed long and loudly but lord sanics
did not laugh now something like fear
sharpened and hardened his features he
walked from the room
and he walked on tiptoe the old woman
was waiting outside attend to your
mistress when she awakes said Lord
sanics then he went down to the street
the cab was at the door and the driver
raised his hand to his hat
John said Lord sanics you will take the
dr. home first he will want leading
downstairs I think tell his butler that
he has been taken ill at a case very
good sir then you can take lady sanics
home and how about yourself sir Oh my
address for the next few months will be
Hotel de Roma Venice just seed that the
letters are sent on until Stevens to
exhibit all the purple chrysanthemums
next Monday and to wire me the result
that is the end of the case of lady
sanics i sir arthur conan doyle read by
greg wag land for magpie audio 2018

the case of lady sanics the relations

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yashmak::noun | Spocien Dictionary

yashmak

noun

the face veil worn by Muslim women

Type	Words
Synonyms	yashmac
Type of	head covering, veil

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yashmak::noun | Spocien Dictionary

abandonment

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