By that time he had become perfectly quiet; his body had
relaxed into a normal position; his face, curiously coloured when I first
saw it, had become placid and pale; he breathed regularly, though very
faintly--and he was steadily dying. I knew quite well what was happening,
and I remarked to Mr. Gardiner that the man would be dead within half-an-
hour."
"I believe you got him to the hospital within that time?" asked the
Coroner.
"Yes--within twenty-five minutes of my first seeing him," said the
witness. "I went with the ambulance. The man died very soon after
admission, just as I knew he would. No medical power on earth could have
saved him!"
The Coroner glanced at the little knot of professional men in the rear of
the witness-box and seemed to be debating within himself as to whether he
wanted to ask Dr. Mirandolet any more questions. Eventually he turned
again to him.
"What your evidence amounts to, Dr. Mirandolet, is this," he said. "You
were called to the man and you saw at once that you yourself could do
nothing for him, so you got him away to the hospital as quickly as you
possibly could.
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