They come through shock and
danger better, they hold to a climax more steadily. Your phlegmatic woman
goes to pieces because she hasn't imagination and vision enough to carry
her over the present."
This reasoning caused him to select Priscilla Glenn for one of the most
critical operations he had ever performed. Among the blue and white
nurses of his knowledge this girl with the strange, uplifted expression
of face; this girl who was actually on the lookout for experience and
practice, and who seriously loved her profession, stood in a class by
herself. He had long had his eye upon her, had meant to single her out.
And now the opportunity had come.
Perhaps the most important man in business circles, certainly one of the
richest men in the city, had come to that period of his life's career
when he must pay toll for the things he had done and left undone in his
past. The broad, common gateway gaped wide for him, and only one chance
presented itself as a possible means of holding him back from the long
journey he so shudderingly contemplated.
"One chance in ten?" he questioned.
"One--in----" Ledyard had hesitated.
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