The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-26

that which It Is in my power to give your"
"Up to eight hundred or even nine hum
dred pounds. II l consider the expenditure
justified"
You will consider It 50: It IL q matter Of
cent. per cent, per annum. and maybe far
more. Thirdly-in order that unfortunate
results may be rendered impossible. will you
undertake as a matter of form. to remain
amenable to my advice in the work appor~
toned to you. even after We shall have sep
arated?'
Royce readily acceded to this, feeling that
he could scarcely be in safer hands. "Bu
what do you mean by separated? Am / to
gather. Sir Bruce. that I am for awhile to
work In connection with yourself7 That
would indeed be"
but should require your presence here for
TWO days. for special instruction: after that
you should go forth equipped into the great
world. and you shall march to certain sus-
cess"
The great doctor spoke 50 quietly, yet
with such obvious conviction that Royce
became In a moment enthusiastically anx-
ious to go farther in this mysterious mat
ter.
Il agree to everything" he said, and
l am ready to take your word as to the
SAFETY Of the thing as a financial invest
ment. l am In your hands, Sir Bruce"
Then listen and you shall know first
the fundamental principle upon which is
based my action In now taking you I'D. and
before you many other smart young fell
lows, all of whom I ave satisfactorily
started in life. My aim is the Hottest
imaginable; it is the cause of science. I
have given up practising. as you may be
aware, In order to devote myself to scien-
tif1c investigation. which I carry on both
personally and also through the medium of
others of whom I get to hear as possessing
the necessary di~sposition-such as yourself.
II have I'm fhfa nhfnaf cov-oraH small h0f.
ties: the contents Of each is Of inestimable
value. and the result Of years of patient
labor and research. After careful personal
instruction and experiment. I cntrust to
each OF my disciples one Of these. Can
you make a guess as to their contents-here
is one, look at it, for the love of Heaven
do not let 1t drop; so-carefully-what is
II. nowT'
The bottle contained liquid. in which
foated a cloudy yellowish substance, as to
which Royce declined to hazard an opinion
without careful inspection and analyzation.
These are the microbes of a very ter
rible disease" said Sir Bruce: there are
sufficient here to infect and destroy the
entire population of London.r
Good Lord!" answered Royce. almost
dropping the phial in his Amusement. Sir
Bruce continued his explanation.
Now. in the first place. I shall ask you
to do me the favor to be my guest at this
house for one week from-let me see. this
is the 14th-from the 24th. 1t Is part OK
the scheme.
Il shall be very happy" said Royce.
somewhat nervously, 80 long as it is not
your intention to experiment upon me-"
Far from it, Sir Bruce laughed; fiat
experimentum in corpore vilo! 1t is my
own vile body that is to be made the VIC
tim; this microbe develops on the tenth
day. that is why / have fixed upon the
cath. 1 now detach an infinitesmal particle
from the mass and-no. no you need not be
alarmed, I assure you that 1 know very
well indeed what I am about!I swallow a
minute portion lin w~ater-there. it is done;
in ten days you shall have a patient. but
long before that time you shall have be-
come well aware how to. attack and over
power the disease as soon as 1t shall have
declared itself. 1 shall scarcely be i'll for a
single day."
Good heavensr" exclaimed Royce; then
your system is to-
''To teach each pupil how to be a specialist
in a single terrible. malady. and afterwards
to supply him with the ,-wherewithal to
make name and fortune by insuring a con-
slant demand for his services. This is q
species of typhoidal- microbe. I shall soon
teach you how to exterminate 1t from the
system attacked 1t was at this point that
Royce began to suspect, the sanity Of the
great man.