Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-09

performing the heart-transference operation in
every part of the States. Indeed, my services
we're in such demand that there was run on
the greater simians; the price of them had risen
sixty per cent; and Rogers, the purveyor to
nenageries, was forced to fit out two large ex-
petitions to Africa, to supply my patients. Our
leading financiers, society women, actors, poll
ticians, and divines were getting me to replace
the hearts worn out by our strenuous American
life.
Thus | was prevented from observing con-
tinuously the youthful changes in my father-ir-
law; and it was nearly five months after the
operation that I became seriously uneasy about
them Then possibility, at once SO astound-
ing and so discomftng that | dismissed it at
once as an idle fancy, flashed upon me- | was
working in my study, and Bellamy Grst was
walking UP and down it with the boyish restless
ness now habitual to him. | raised my eyes
from nv notes, and observed that he wore
very absent-minded air, and his lipe were NOV
ing as if he we're engaged in composition. Sud
denly, as | looked without any change in his
musing face, plainly without any conscious effort
of will, he leapt UP sideways, caught the curtain
rod with his right hand, and came bang down
on the floor, bringing the snapped rod and cur
tains on the top of him; and I had had fash
ing. fleeing, but vivid impression of leaping
monkey. Even as he picked himself up, with
a very sheepish air. and rubbed his knees,
thrust the fancy from me and assured myself
that it was only his wonderful boyishness.
Of course, the impression kept recurring;
but I thrust it away and refused to let it annoy
HE. Two days later it was strengthened in
deed. I was strolling through the woods with
him when he made another of those sudden
leaps, caught the lower branch of a tree, swung,
gave himself curious jerk and dropped in an
oddly foolish way on his hands and knees. He
looked around with an air of strange surprise,
rose, shook his leonine name of snoW-Whlte hair
on one side, looked behind him, fumbled at the
back of his pants, and sad-''I thought I'd got
tail Dodgast it, Hickman Why haven't
we tails?"
I gasped Then he laughed forced laugh,
and pretended that he had been joking. l ac-
cepted the pretence but when I reached home
I locked myself in my study and faced the stu
alton There was no doubt that Bellamy Grist
had acquired, along with his heart, something
of Moko's dispositions with him nothing could
be DONE But how did | stand to my patients
still awaiting the operation? At first it seemed
to me that I ought to warn all of them of these
new results of it. I took the list of names and
dates out of the drawer to write to them; and
it pulled me up short There were two famous
divines, a great, but honest lawyer, professor
of Harvard, and leading actor, about whom
there could be no doubt; they were servants of
the American people, doing good work; they
must be told, and choose for themselves. On
the other hand, there were two Wall Street
operators, the head of a great, well-watered
trust, three leading politicians, and five leaders
of society in New York and Chicago. 1t was