Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-04

begun with just such minor allenatiOnS from duty and human pity as have al- ready noted, and should end =, should end-?'
 But sleep, that kindly genie who waits on the fatigues of youth and health, left his last fantastic self-query mercifully unfinished. And in the morning he forgot the tinge of morbid reflection which had crept across his brain, and remembered only that the day was full of sunshine, that his own refreshed energies were full of purpose and power.
 The ardor with which he worked grew in a way sacred to himself. AL ways moved to reverence by the mem- ory of Ihis father, more than filial sense now stirred him. At times he al- most saw his father, shadowy shape, and yet one vested with acute souvenirs of their days together in picturesque old Marylebone road. Now and then the air would seem electric with admo- milton. His undertaking appeared to him so holy as forcibly to sweep a vague aroma through the harsh material odors of his chemic pursuits. He swiftly be- came the votary of an imagined god ship. This cult meant his fathers be-
 
 now spiritually lznelt before, in devout regard. To solve this enigma, which had assumed for him the form of pre- cious inheritance, was to guard it against the least mundane disapprecia- tion. As the struggle which he made land it was a severe struggle, consider ing his relatively few equipments) neared surer and surer the goal he al- ready had discerned. Gerald became penetrated with a respect for his toll quite foreign to the intent which had before infused him. His former passion for realities abode the same, but this had mistily vailed itself in haze of romanticism. He constantly saw Clyde and reported to him the results of each l day. ''You are growing feverish and queer," his friend said to him one even- ing, ''as your brother (to judge from your own tidings) grows calmer and more ordinary"
 "True," returned Gerald, "I am al- most at the summit of my aspirations. Tomorrow, or perhaps a day or two later, I shall have really brewed that colorless liquid we both wot of" "To-morrow, or a day or two later," Clyde musingly replied; ''why, then," he broke off, brightening. i've shall have grand time together in testing it's potency"
 "No," replied Gerald. with grave de- nial
 "No? How's that?'' came the quick question.
 "I wish to test its potency, but in a single way" was Gerald's reply.
 "A single way? You mean. ?" 'I mean with complete deferepce to my dead father"
 "Gerald, how odd of youI Speak plainer.''
 Gerald did speak. palmer, and some what at length. Clyde listened with great heed. At length he said:
 II understand your feelings. There's something exceeding nice and poetic about it"
 Gerald drew back little. "Ahl you express it too savagely," he said. "Savagely? You mean realistically. My dear boy, if it lies in my power your whim shall be gratifed."
 "It is not a whim!'' asserted Gerald, hotly. "It is"
 "A creed, an infatuation, religion any thing you please. But shall hold it inviolate if can."
 "If you can! YouI With your name and place as physician"
 ''Ahl we'll see. 1 shall have to go through high jinlss, no doubt, with those people at the morgue. Still, they'll bring you the body of some drowned person whom they believe to have committed suicide. And on such body you alone consent to try this mi- raculous white liquid?'
 "I have not called it miraculous" re- turned Gerald, coidly. ''That is an adjective of your own coining."
 "Bah!" exclaimed Clyde, springing from the chair in which he sat and let ting hand fall upon his companlon's arm. "You mustn't rebuff me like that, dear boy. Recollect I'm immensely with you"
 "Ah! know it-I know it but too well," the tears visibly shining in his eyes. Look here, Clyde," he went on, ''I simply want to pay my fathers grand idea (for it now seems to me grand, whether it prove futile or no) a certain kind of allegiance. To try the elixir on some drowned person would be precisely what he might, if now alive, desire and commend. A suicide? | you will ask. Yes, suicide, answer, and one who has sought self-murder through drowning. For, as the manu. script affirms, in the frame of one who has attempted death by drowning there will more probably be no organic lesion. Hence the drug, if effective at all, will secure it's chief chance of acting at it's best in one who has died this particular death."
 Gerald had thus spoken with his friend only a single day preceding the conversation held between Sylvan and himself, as recorded, at the bedside of the latter. All was soon arranged. Dr. Clyde pulled certain secret professional wires Gin certain ways empowered to do so by his position at Bellevue) and on a certain morning Gerald woke in expec- tation that the evening would come to him packed with prodigious fatality.