It was worth it for this one occasion."
Shirley arose to his feet, and approached the other, touching his
shoulder.
"Stand up, if you please. Let me ask if this was the location of
the mark?"
The physician, interested in this new professional phase, readily
obeyed. One quick movement of Shirley's muscular hand, the thumb
oddly twisted and stiffened, and a sudden jab in the doctor's
abdomen made that gentleman gasp with pain. Shirley's expression
was triumphant, but the professor regarded him with an expression
of terror.
"Oh! Ugh!--What-did-you-do-to me?" he murmured thickly, when he
was at last able to speak.
"Merely demonstrated the beginning of the death punch which I
named. That pressure if continued for half a minute would have
been fatal."
"I wish you would teach me that," was the physician's natural
request, as he nodded with a wry face.
"Impossible, my dear sir, for I learned it, according to the
Oriental custom under the most sacred obligations of secrecy.
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