Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-30

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beast" he answered, calmly. as he turned
CerStand, but she was afraid Of troubling
him with other questions.
He had left on a table the syringe and the
phial of serum which was half empty. But
in the breast pocket of his coat he had the
phial of toxin, which was wholly empty.
The nuns, engaged in holding down An
dreis. had not seen that the phial on the
table was not the phial from which the
syringe had been filled; and, when used,
Damer had plunged the syringe Immediate
iy into bowl Of disinfecting acid. There
was no trace anywhere that the toxin had
been used-no trace whatever save in the
tumifying vein of the sick mans throat.
gu had better stay, you may be want
ed. and it is o'clock" said Damer to the.
nurses. Il shall remain here. There will
be, hope. great change soon.''
He went out on to the balcony and turned
his back on the watching women and lean
ed against the iron work, looking down on
the canal, where nothing moved except the
slow, scarcely-visible ripple of the water.
He did not repent or regret; he did not
see any evil in his act The right of the
strong, the right of the sage was his; he
had but exercised his reason to produce an
issue he desired.
So he thought as he leaned against the
Iron scroll work and watched the thick.
dark water glide by the Salute. There was
faint light in the sky on the east, but
he could not see the east where he stood;
| 1t was still completely night between the
man called up to him from the darkness
below.
Madame sends me to know how goes
1t with the prince?"
tess Laranigra that things are as they
were. A new remedy has been essayed."
The man who had come by the Gale
retired by them, swinging a lantern in
his hand.
The vulcans of the clock tower hard
by in st. Marks square struck four
times upon their anvil. Damer looked up
the darkness of the canal, where nothing
was to be seen but the lamps which burn
ed on either side of 1t with their reflections,
and the lanthorns tied to poles before some
OF the palaces. He could not the Ca
Laranigra, which was not in sight even in
the day, but he saw it in remembrance,
with its Towering balconies, its tapestried
chambers, its red and white awnings its
great eseutcheon over its portals He saw
her in his vision as she must be now
awake, listening for her messengers re-
turn, In some white, loose gown no doubt,
with her hair loose. too. upon her Shout
ders, her face white, her eyes strained in
anxiety, as he had seen them that after
noon and evening. If Andreis had lived
she would have been his wife; that was as
certain as that the sea was beating on the
Il have done well; have exercised my
right he thought. I'VE have right of
life and death over all birds and beasts
and things which swim and crawl. by
virtue of our greater brain; in like manner
has the greater brain the right to deal as
1t will with the weaker brain when their
paths meet and one must yield and go
under. The fool hath said that there is
sanctity in life, but the man of science has
never said it. To him one organism or an
other has the same measure in his scales"
He was consistent enough and sincere
enough to follow out the theories of the
laboratory to their logical sequence with
out finching. He honestly held himself
without blame
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