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select such a place as this for hypertemia,&quot; I re 

 marked. &quot; To a man accustomed to the intensi 

 ties, that is, the activities of life, it must wear 

 some of the aspects of death.&quot; 



&quot; I think,&quot; he replied, &quot; that the Doctor referred 

 to you as a remarkable example of the revivifying 

 effects, and I was to follow in your footsteps.&quot; 



&quot;How fantastic! Mine was a case of heart; 

 yours is a case of head. Imagine if you can the 

 head following in the footsteps of the heart in our 

 days. The Doctor must have relapsed into the 

 M iddle Ages.&quot; 



&quot; Not at all. I suppose the modern practice 

 follows Nature and tries to divert a disease from 

 one overworked organ to another that is not over 

 worked, in which case the Doctor may have meant 

 to relieve my brain by affecting my heart. In 

 your case, the process may have been reversed, 

 and in order to relieve your heart he may have 

 affected your brain.&quot; 



That was my introduction to the clever young 

 guest. There was some danger of my getting to 

 like him after all, for he was not such a dead calm 

 as he looked. 



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