The letter which blazed this passage fell into the hands of the doctor who contented himself with murmuring:

“It is very feasible.

That evening, we dined at White Oak Park, a property that the doctor had around Pigtown.

During the meal, a strange torpor, invincible, took the two lovers.

Assisted by Joe, an athletic negro, he had in his service since the Civil War, Snowdrop undressed the guilty, lay on the bed together and completed their anesthesia with a hydrocarbon of the invention.

He prepared his surgical instruments as quietly as if it were to cut a horn to a Chinese.

Then with a truly remarkable dexterity, he removed, by disarticulating the right arm and right leg of his wife.

To George, for the same operation, he removed the left arm and left leg.

The entire length of the right side of Bertha, the entire length of the left side of George, he levied a large strip of skin about three inches.