St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-04-19

celled but was informed that it was not.
OF course, il was not, Tor all this time,
knew, and | alone, that the Professor
had paid him no money at all, but, him.
self, carried away the notes left by the
missing man.
The jani,or and 1 had several CONVEX
sations about this time. Another reward
had been offered for information leading
to the recovery of the Doctor and he was
curiously bent on earning it. Every act
Of the Professor was now open to sus-
picion in the janitor's mind. He watched
the occupant Of the laboratory by means
of hole which he bored through the
door, where by lying on the mat outside
he could see his feet treading the floor
from the sink to the furnace. The Pro-
fessor, he said, was using good many
shavings and was keeping fire in the
hitherto unused furnace. This did not
surprise me as knew it was his plan to
keep his experiments secret in the medical
discovery which he was hoping to make.
But he did not ask me to aid him, for he
seemed to both hate and fear me ever
since our trouble.
All this time, five or six DAYS, after the
disappearance of the Doctor, the Profes-
sor lectured as usual to the class. How
ever, to me, he appeared strange, al
though it was stated afterwards that no
trace of agitation appeared about him.
On the 26th, and on two other occa-
sions. anonymous letters were received
by the police stating that the Doctor
was taken aboard a ship and that
the writer was given his watch, but,
as he was afraid to keep it, he had
thrown it into the water near the long
bridge in the city. Another letter adj
vised the authorities to search the cellars
OF vacant houses and the river.
The Professor wrote all these letters,
it was claimed by persons who knew his
handwriting, and afterwards blunt in
strument with piece Of cotton tied
over the end was discovered in his room
which was undoubtedly what he used to
write the letters with. There is no
doubt of this in my mind now, that the
Professor, himself, tossed the Doctors
watch into the river, where it was dis
covered by one of the search party.
The more l thought of that one thou
sand dollars reward, the more l wanted
to get half of it. After it was paid to
me l would sail for foreign parts, said
to myself, and when safe beyond pursuit,
I would send message that would
make everything all right for the Profes-
sor. Meanwhile little fright would
not hurt him and might be the means of
teaching him that other men were not
the dirt beneath his feet that he seemed
to think them. Or the Doctor might re.
turn; but had begun to think this was
doubtful. l was convinced that some
accident had come to him, which would
not be at all strange in his disordered
condition.
Having made my plans, laid them be-
fore the janitor, at least, laid part Of
them before him; the rest reserved to
my own use, for reasoned that the jani-
tor was too cowardly to aid me mater
tally in the first part of my plans. Hav-
ing begun by asking him if he had ex-
amined the private closet in the Profess
sor's room, expressed my wonder when
told that he had not.
I will do so this very day. said the
janitor. 1t is strange that 1 never
thought of it,