Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-13
WATERBURY EvETTNG DEMOCRAT. MONDAY APRIL

weeping What have you done? HOW came this body in your room? Speak freely to one who may be helpful. Do you imagine would ruin you? Do you think this piece of dead flesh on your pillow can alter in any degree the sym pathy with which you have inspired me? Credulous youth, the horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him, and if saw the friend of my heart return to me out of seas of blood he would be in no way changed in my affection. Raise yourself" he said. Good and i'll are chimera. There is naught in life ex- cept destiny, and. however you may be circumstanced, there is one at your side who will help you to the last" Thus encouraged, Silas gathered him. self together and, in a broken voice and helped out by the doctors interroga- tions, contrived at last to put him in possession of the facts. But the con- versation between the prince and Ger aldine he altogether omitted, as he had understood little of its purport and had no idea that it was in any way related to his own misadventure.
 "Alas!' cried Dr. Noel. "I am much abused or you have fallen innocently into the most dangerous hands in Eu- rope Poor boy! What a pit has been dug for your simplicity! Into what a deadly peril have your unwary feet been conducted! This man," he said, ''this Englishman, whom you twice saw and whom I suspect to be the soul of the contrivance, can you describe him? Was he young or old, tall or short?"
 But Silas, who, for all his curiosity, had not a seeing eye in his head, was able to supply nothing but meager gen. eralities, which it was impossible to rec ognize.
 T would have it piece of educa ton in all schoolsY' cried the doctor angrily. ''Where is the use of eye sight and articulate speech if a man cannot observe and recollect the fea- lures of his enemy? I, who know all the gangs of Europe, might have iden- tiled him and gained new weapons for your defense Cultivate this art in future, my poor boy. You may find it of momentous service"
 "The future!' repeated Silas. stWhat future is there left for me except the gafloWsY
 Youth is but cowardly season." returned the doctor, "and mans own troubles look blacker than they are. I am old, and yet never despair"
 "Can I tell such a story to the pc I Iice?" demanded Silas. ,@ "Assuredly not" replied the doctor. Prom what see already of the machi- nation in which you have been in- volved your case is desperate upon that side, and for the narrow eye of the authorities you are 1nfallibly the guilty person And remember that we only | know a portion of the plot, and the same infamous contrivers have doubt 1 less arranged many other circumstances l which would be elicited by a police in- | quiry and help to fix the guilt more certainly upon your innocence" T am then lost indeedr' cried Silas. 'I have not said so," answered Dr. Noel, flor am cautious man."
 "But look at this," objected Silas, 1 pointing to the body. 'Here is this ob- ,ject in my bed, not to be explained, not to be disposed of, not to be regarded without horror"
 "Horror?' replied the doctor. 'No. When this sort of clock has run down, 1t is no more to me than an ingenious piece of mechanism, to be investigated with the bistoury. When blood is once cold and stagnant, it is no longer hu- man blood. When flesh is once dead; it is no longer the flesh which we desire in our lovers and respect in our friends. The grace, the attraction and the terror have all gone from it with the animat- ing spirit. Accustom yourself to look upon it with composure, for if my scheme is practicable you will have to live some days in constant proximity to that which now so greatly horri1es you"
 "Your scheme?'' cried Silas. "What is that? Tell me speedily, doctor, for l have scarcely courage enough to con- tinue to exist"
 Without replying, Dr. Noel turned to- ward the bed and proceeded to examine the corpse.
 Quite dead" he murmured. eyes, as I had supposed, the pockets empty; yes, and the name cut off the shirt. l AACA WOA h llS OCCAA uOA1C and well. Fortunately, he is of small stature"
 Silas followed these words with an extreme anxiety. At last the doctor, his autopsy completed, took chair and addressed the young American with a smile.
 Since I came into your room," said he, although my ears and my tongue have been so busy, have not suffered my eyes to remain idle. I noted little while ago that you have there in the corner one of those monstrous construc- tions which your fellow countrymen carry with them into all quarters of the globe-in a word, a Saratoga trunk. Until this moment I have never been able to conceive the utility of these creations; but then I began to have a glimmer. Whether it was for conven- fence in the slave trade or to obviate the results of too ready an employment of the bowie knife, cannot bring my self to decide, but one thing I see plain ly-the object of such box is to con- tain human body"
 Surely" cried Silas-"surely this is |