The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-25

want TO nay my fathers grand idea flor III
now seems to me grand, whether 1t proves
futile or no) a certain kind OF aiieglahee.
To try the elixir on some drowned person
would be precisely what ne might, 4 noS
alive, desire and commend. suiciae!
you will ask. Yes, q suicide, answer,
and one who has sought self-muraer
through drowning. For, as the manu-
script affirms, in the frame of one VINO M. las
attempted death by drowning there VIII
more probably be no organic lesion
Hence the drug, if effective at all, Will Sc
cure its chief chance of acting at its best
in one who has died this particular
DEATH
Gerald had thus spoken with his friend
only a single day preceding the conVersa-
ton held between Sylvan and hlmseii, as
recorded. at the bedside of the latter.
All was soon arranged Dr: ciyu9
pulled certain secret professional
wires lin certain ways empowered TO DO
SO by his position at Beilevue) and on
certain morning Gerald woke IN expec-
tatlon that the evening would come 10
him packed with a prodigious fatallty.
His liquid had been perfected, ana ne
felt certain that even the faintest error
had not crept into its composition. Inc
tall flask that held il stood on shelf IN
his laboratory. He had discharged ms
assistant; the work, for good or evll,
for success or failure, was finished at last.
He scarcely ate morsel during the day,
and when the darkness of an autumn even
ing fell blandly upon the huge town, ne
sought the room which had witnessed his
earnest toll, lit three or four gas-jets, and
strove to engage himself with book our
ing the hours that must elape between
then and the time at which the corpse
would be brought him.
But reading was impossible. lie felt
greatly excited, and yet his nerves were
IL Il I'D
solid table for the reception OF the body
when it should appear. At intervals he
fixed his gaze upon the dusky and polished
surface close at hand What would 1T
presently reveal? Would the body be that
of man or woman? Had he done wrong
in requesting Clyde not TO conner
Might not the utter solitude which
sort of tribute due to the immense seri-
business of his fathers attempt, prove
Sterner than his endurance could meetY
Just beyond the chamber in which he
now sat were two others belonging to
himself. His landlady, a kind though
rather stupid person, had been made
aware of the strange, dumb guest that
would arrive at midnight, or little later;
but she had also been led to believe that
perhaps purposes of anatomic dissection
were alone the cause of so odd an event.
The other dodgers in the house were quiet
folk who would most probably be last
asleep IN their beds by the time the whole
eerie thing occurred.
And SO, restless yet placid, Gerald
waited. Through his open window the
voices of the great darkened city stole.
Every separate noise, from the rattle OF
passing carriage TO the far boom of a
steamboat on one of the rivers, clad itself
with audible language. In the next room
there was large clock, whose tickings
had never troubled him till now. But
now they seemed to vacillate, as it were,
between two spoken sentences-''what a
fool" and wait and see" Finally, though
annoyed at his own weakness, Gerald rose,
went into that adjoining room, and
stopped the clock
But he looked at its hands before he did
so. How the time dragged! There were
still two good hours for him to wait.
Ito be continued.)