Chapter Twenty-One
"Will He Live?"
Soon there were busy scenes in the Swift home, as preparations were made
for a serious operation on the aged inventor. Tom's father had sunk into
deep unconsciousness, and was stretched out on the bed as though there
was no more life in him. In fact, Tom, for the moment, feared that it
was all over. But good old Dr. Kurtz, noting the look on the lad's face,
said:
"Ach, Dom, doan't vorry! Maybe it vill yet all be vell, und der vater
vill hear of der great race. Bluck up your courage, und doan't gif up.
Der greatest surgeon in der vorld is here now, und if anybody gan safe
your vater, Herr Hendriz gan. Dot vos a great drip you made--a great
drip!"
Tom felt a little comforted and, after a sight of his father, and a
silent prayer that God would spare his life for years to come, the young
inventor went out in the yard. He wanted to be busy about something, for
he knew, with the doctors, and a trained nurse who had been hastily
summoned, there was no immediate need for him.
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