The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-08-26

THE very man I want" Lady Bysshe
replied, eagerly. II am so glad I men,
toned the subject. Pray tell me about
II have known him to make extraor-
binary cures. My father las immense
faith in him, and, indeed, he has at
tended our family since he came to
settle here as a young man.; so he re-
CARDS me as one of his few friends"
My dear count, l will send for him
at once"
II should tell you that he is rather
has a reputation, a singular reputa-
ton
rs he so wicked?" Lady Bysshe
ask ed, arching her brows inquiringly.
O the contrary, he is most chari-
table, eads the life Of a hermit, and
prescribes without recompense to any
poor people who consult him. But they
believe him to be a wizard. partly. be-
cause of his dress and appearance,
partly because of the cures he makes,
but chiefly because when they see the
red and green lights burning through
the windows OF his laboratory at mid
night or early morning, they cross
themselves and tell each other hat he
is having a conference with his satanic
iiAsA IN Ho"
our people are" he added, with a low
pleasant laugh.
But is he a chemist?" Lady Eysshe
asked.
H is an alchemist. For nearly half
a century he has been seeking for the
secret which shall turn base metals
into pure gold" Sasari told her quite
seriously.
"What?" Docs anyone believe in
such things in this century?"
oh, several, l assure you. The elev.
crest mel sometimes follow the most
absurd hobbies. L laugh at Dr. zof-
FAM for his credulity, and he pities me
for my ignorance. He can name a doz-
en- alchemists who have turned lead
into gold in anclent times, At all
events, lie has wasted half a century
and a large fortune in experimenting"
~fortune?" Lady Rysshe asked.
No, for he has never had many
wealthy patients, and l have never
heard from him where he gets the
money TO rent his palace, keep up his
laboratory, buy expensive chemicals and
poor, not to speak of the silver mug
gets / have seen him drop into the
crucible as if they We're so many
stones
vidual,' said Lady Bysshe with a
doubtful air. But as q doctor
Il will pledge myself for his Skill"
Then l will send for him." she de-
cided.
Il fear you will hav to take the pa
palace Tor years. Nothing VIII tempt
him to go far from his laboratory,
where a fire has beer kept burning
night and day FOR q quarter of a e
fury
Then l will take Edith to him the
first day she is able to be out. Perhaps
you WOULD come with u.s.
With pleasure" answered the INT
And meanwhile, l will prepare him for
your visit
y week later and they drove through
the Porta Nuova, half a mile beyond
late looking place whose thick, rough
stoned walls stood close by the road
side, from which its lower windows
were protected by thick iron bars. A
few Clipped and broken stairs led to
a high-arched doorway, beside
whose sounds presently went echoing
through empty halls and corridors in
interlninable reverberations.
A few minute later they caught the
sounds of shutting feet approaching,
then Il door Edith had not previously
noticed vas pushed open and DR.. Zof-
FAM stood or the threshold. His Heb
rev origin was Instantly perceptible in
his withered yellow face, with it's prom
inent nose and UNDERLYING lower lip.
His gray beard was unkempt, his high
dome-shaped forehead swept by wisps
of white hair, While the crown of his
head was covered by a little purple
cap. The chief features in his sage
and kindly c~ountenance was his eyes
dark, sunlten, fu!l of underlying sad
ness, yet extraordinarily luminous and
with an intelligence -thatrmade itself
visible like light. IIsi tall, thin figure
was slightly stopped and clad in a loose
brown gaberdine, the garment Worn by
his people in the EAST.
He lifted his little skul cap and bow
Bysshe II Edith, then warmly greeted
Sasarl, who at once explained that he
had brought the patient of whom he
had already spoken. AT this the doctor
fixed his ayes on Edith and begged that
she and her friends would follow him.
With slow steps he conducted them
to the apartment where he SAY the few
patients who consulted hIn-an octag-
ona room whose atmosphere was heat
ed by charcoal. burning in a great bra
zier. It was lighted by the midday
sum-, streaming through it's deep set
windows.
Edith was impressed with the doc
tors grave Yet kindly manner by his
venerable and unconventional appear
al1ce, but above all by an indefinable
air of insight and knowledge which the
expression of his Eyes guaranteed him
TO possess.
As she walked beside him she had
addressed hin in his own language,
which her stepfather had taught her,
when with delighted surprise he began
to aske her various questions about
herself and the country from which she
had come
Sasari-who had been showing Lady
Bysshe some curious crystal pitfalls and
marble statuettes that he had dug up
In a neighboring garden-calne forward
to tell Zoffani that his patient was the
stepdaughter of Count Massini. At
this he looked at Edith seemingly with