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No rough-and-ready surgery of the Del Mar1 sort obtained at Cedarwild, else Michael would not have lived. A real surgeon, skilful2 and audacious, came very close to vivisecting him as he radically3 repaired the ruin of a shoulder, doing things he would not have dared with a human but which proved to be correct for Michael.
“He’ll always be lame4,” the surgeon said, wiping his hands and gazing down at Michael, who lay, for the most part of him, a motionless prisoner set in plaster of Paris. “All the healing, and there’s plenty of it, will have to be by first intention. If his temperature shoots up we’ll have to put him out of his misery5. What’s he worth?”
“He has no tricks,” Collins answered. “Possibly fifty dollars, and certainly not that now. Lame dogs are not worth teaching tricks to.”
Time was to prove both men wrong. Michael was not destined6 to permanent lameness7, although in after-years his shoulder was always tender, and, on occasion, when the weather was damp, he was compelled to ease it with a slight limp. On the other hand, he was destined to appreciate to a great price and to become the star performer Harry8 Del Mar had predicted of him.
In the meantime he lay for many weary days in the plaster and abstained9 from raising a dangerous temperature. The care taken of him was excellent. But not out of love and affection was it given. It was merely a part of the system at Cedarwild which made the institution such a success. When he was taken out of the plaster, he was still denied that
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proceeding
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