As they
struggled he must have shoved a sponge soaked with ether and
orange essence under his nose. Cushing went under.
"Resistance overcome by the anesthetic, he dragged the now
insensible form to the work bench. Frantically he must have
worked. He made an incision and exposed the radial artery, the
pulse. Then he must have administered a local anesthetic to
himself in his arm or leg. He secured a vein and pushed the cut
end over this little canula. Then he fitted the artery of Cushing
over that and the blood that was, perhaps, to save his life began
flowing into his depleted veins.
"Who was this madman? I have watched the actions of those whom I
suspected when they did not know they were being watched. I did it
by using this neat little device which looks like a field glass,
but is really a camera that takes pictures of things at right
angles to the direction in which the glass seems to be pointed.
One person, I found, had a wound on his leg, the wrapping of which
he adjusted nervously when he thought no one was looking.
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