The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-01

l seven at that moment ana u KNOCK was heard at my laboratory door. 1 went to open it and found my master waiting outside 'What!' he cried. You seem | excited, carried out of yourself (do not | the English speak sop. You are kind to be thus overjoyed to see the old mas ter The people of the house had told him I was upstairs, and he had found his way to the laboratory by a sort Of instinct. I took him affectionately by the arm and made him sit down, though he was very hale and active In his movements, and would have shamed many a young man of twenty or thirty. His eyes wandered inquisitively around the room, and at length he said. But come am going to look around l smiled, and my heart beat at the news was presently going to give him. How glad he would be! How he would ring
 my hand and beam upon me! Virhoff had his back to me, and was bending down over some papers, when suddenly I heard him utter sort of choking gasp and l saw his whole body shake convul-
 sively, I rushed to his side. and he
 looked round at me with face white as the dead His lips moved, but no | SOuIQ CelliG HUH tiiClly anu ollll ilC stared at me with glassy, Horror stricll-
 en eyes. What Is it dear master I
 cried in fear. Is it that heart pain again?' The sound of my voice seemed
 to bring him somewhat to himself, and
 he staggered to a chair, holding pa
 per in his hand. Yes, yes,' he muttered
 hoarsely, the pain in my heart-so
 bad gave him some brandy, and he
 soon grew more lifelike, though I could
 see he had had great shock. I must
 go home,' he said. I expostulated in
 vain, but when I found he was deter
 mined, rose to accompany him; to my
 surprise, he would not let me go any
 further with him than my sitting room
 door, Go in and sit down! said he.
 Don't take any notice of me. like it
 better so. Sit down and close the door.
 I will go down alone. I could but obey,
 and heard his steps going down stairs,
 and then the clang of the hall door as it closed upon him. He mad dropped the
 paper on my landing, and I had me
 chanically picked it up. I now looked
 at 1t, and found it was one of my con
 cluding experiments, the result of which
 had scribbled down hastily, before
 noting in my book.
 T slept very badly that night, what
 with one thing and another, and I re-
 member very well getting up to feel
 if my precious notebook was safe. Then
 I got back into bed again. But my
 discovery and it's results haunted me.
 At last, out of all patience got up,
 put on my dressing-gown, and deter
 mined to go to my laboratory and take | lnpl in1x hxr ,,o
 to settle my mind. I accordingly took
 a box of matches, and moved softly,
 with slipper-shod feet, along the cor
 ridor. What was my astonishment to
 see light faintly shining under the
 laboratory door! Some one was in
 there. I first thought of thieves, but
 at once secuted the idea. What could
 thieves want in such place? lis
 tened breathlessly at the keyhole, and
 distinctly heard somebody moving
 about, and once thought I heard an
 impatient sigh. I am not very muscu-
 lar, but still, this was an intrusion on
 my 'holy of holes, and I determined,
 if the door was unlocked, to rush in and
 catch the intruder if possible. I put
 my hand on the knob, but must have
 made some slight noise in doing 60, for
 the light was instantly extinguished.
 In I dashed, but fell prostrate over a
 chair, which had been cleverly placed
 at the entrance Something brushed
 past me in the darkness, rushed through the door, and downstairs. It did not
 take me very long to jump up, and follow the nocturnal visitant, arousing the house at the same time by my cries. But as I got to the top of the bottom flight of stairs, heard the bolt of the hall-door shot back, and I just got to the street in time to seea cloaked figure running with incredible swiftness 7 forty or fifty yards away. It was i'm , possible for me, clad as I was, to pur- ] sue it, so my landlord and l, after [ thoroughly searching every corner of
 the house, and finding no clew to the 7 mystery, decided to go back to bed once more, and acquaint the police with , my adventure in the morning.
 Morning came, and with it kind letter from Professor Virhoff, telling me that his indisposition made it inn , possible for him to lecture, and inviting me to come to his house in the after noon, and T was to be sure said the letter, to bring with me any notes l ! might have made on the functions of the medulla oblongata, as he wished tc see how far had gone in the study of
 that organ
 q passed my morning in the labora- tory, verifying, examining each link ir my chain of causation, and looking eagerly for any DO ssible source of CT. TOT No, all was safe enough, and my f blood coursed quickly through my I veins as I thought of the reputation 2 had made for myself, and of the dear t ones at home-how glad they would be! : ate my lunch in a dream, and was s actually on my way to the professors . when suddenly remembered that had :. | left my precious notebook behind me ] I hastily ran back, snatched it up from e an experimenting table, and made the best of my way to my masters house knowing that he much disliked unpunc.
 tuality.
 . "He received me warmly, but I stil fancied that his face was triflle pale r and that his hand shook. This latter - fact was brought to my notice by hi: letting wine glass fall after dinner '. He had just raised it to his lips Yher U I said, Now, master. I have wonder ful piece of news for you and wan " you to drink to my health. have dis J covered the true function of the medul i, | la oblongata.