“And of course, when we serve two masters, we must always fail one. The doctor foolishly accepted the money of the mayor’s daughter to have a child removed who would have been...let us say, a political liability. At least, the daughter thought so. She, like so many others, stole the money from her parents, and gave the doctor a false name.
“Though the procedure was a success, the mayor nonetheless found out what the doctor had done, and swore to ruin him. After all, he wasn’t going to punish his own daughter. No, he focused his anger on the doctor. He had his medical license revoked. The medicinal whiskey stopped flowing in, and really that should have been the end of the story. The bad men who the doctor owed debts should have settled his account.
“But the doctor was a man of science. A
