physician, who accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt
to Chicago, Dr. Evans of Chicago and Dr. Woods-Hutchinson, a writer on
medical topics, a warm personal friend.

As soon as he saw Dr. Lambert the colonel said:

"Lambert, you'd have let me finish that speech if you'd been there
after I was shot, wouldn't you?"

"Perhaps so," returned the doctor, a little dubiously, "but I should
have made sure you were not seriously hurt first."

Before Mrs. Roosevelt arrived the colonel was insistent that he be
allowed to go to Oyster Bay shortly. After a talk with Mrs. Roosevelt,
he said he would leave that question to her.

"It will probably be ten days at least before we go," she said. "It is
too far distant to attempt a prophecy."

A more careful examination of the X-ray photographs taken of the
patient disclosed the fact that his fourth rib was slightly splintered
by the impact of the bullet lodged against it. This accounted for the
discomfort that the colonel suffered.

Mrs. Roosevelt was insistent on taking her husband home at the earliest
moment consistent with safety.

The colonel passed an easy day. He continued to exhibit the utmost
indifference to the motives of Schrank, who sought his life. "His name
might be Czolgosz or anything else as far as I am concerned," he said
to one of his visitors. "I never heard of him before and know nothing
about him."

To another friend he expressed the opinion that the man was a maniac
afflicted with a paranoia on the subject of the third term. He showed
no curiosity about him and did not discuss him, although he talked
considerably about the shooting.

"You know," he said to Dr. Murphy, "I have done a lot of hunting and I
know that a thirty-eight caliber pistol slug fired at any range will
not kill a bull moose."

Before he went to sleep, Col. Roosevelt called for hot water and a
mirror and sitting in bed, carefully shaved himself. Mrs. Roosevelt,
tired out after her long journey, also retired early, at 10 o'clock.

The following bulletin, issued by the surgeons on the morning of
October 15, described the wound inflicted by Schrank's bullet:

"Col. Roosevelt's hurt is a deep bullet wound of the chest wall
without striking any vital organ in transit. The wound was not
probed. The point of entrance was to the right of and one inch
below the level of the right nipple. The range of the bullet was
upward and inward, a distance of four inches, deeply in the chest