"Once more!"
The thud-thudding began again, and now it had a sharp sound which
the doctor instantly recognized. In a moment the boy was shaking the
air with cries of such awful agony that the doctor--
"Stop!" cried the father convulsively, his face streaming with
tears. "God--the boy doesn't--know! Don't torture him--like that!"
The man with the metal heart said:
"Will you tell now?"
"Don't do it father!" the boy whispered through palsied lips. But no
Capellan heard him.