The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-11
continued from First Page,

IT have been experimenting with a
drug which I believe will restore you
to complete health" said the great
specialist after the daughter had de-
parted, and he went about the room
securely boiling every door except the
n which led into a high-walled court
yard at the back of the building, and
which could be entered from the street.
Ryerson listlessly watched this ac-
ton as he sat In a collapsed condition
in the big armchair on one side Of the
desk. DR.. Markay, after boiling the
windows and drawing the shades, sat
down at the other side of the desk and
! opened a small combination safe which
had been built into one side instead of
drawers. From this he took a small
phial, saying, as he held it up:
81 have here one milligram of the
venom of a lancehead viper, the dead
Hest poison known, but also the most
potent ~rejuvenator of the ervou sys-
tenn. The snake was brought from
the headwaters of the Amazon River.
In South America, and I obtained this
small amount of the venom by rare
good fortune when the poison was
taken from the viper in the Bronx
Zoo.
"If your blood were to come in con-
tact with this poison it would kill you
instantly, but taken internally in the
proportion of one part venom to 12O,
600 parts water, it reaches the nerves,
and experts nave reported wonderful
results
"I'1l take anything" was the mill
lionaire's rather sullen reply.
DIR. Markay placed one drop of the
already diluted venom into a tumbler
of water. Mr.. Ryerson was so ner-
vous he could not handle the glass,
and the doctor held it to his lips while
he drained it. The physician opened
the door into the reception-room and
instructed the maid, in a whisper, that
he would see no one else that day, and
that she might go home. Boiling tbs
door again, the doctor look his seat al
the desk, and, looking across at The
nerve-wrought patient, inquired, will
81 rather cynical smile;
well, how do you feel now?"
81 feel no differently"
mo, and you will not for thirty min
utes-then you will enter into a stat
of coma, to remain unconscious unit
1t pleases me to revive youiH declared
III. MdThdN dS ic lOph q iCNtlNb
from a top drawer and laid it on tn
desk by his side.
Ryerson gasped, but was too weak
ened and,too frightened to successfully
carry out his effort to rise.
Calm yourself, my dear sir" sal
the doctor almost blandly. You ar
in good hands, and no harm will com
to you if you do as I tell you. Jus
wait a moment"
5 The doctor opened another drawe
l and took from it the paper which h
: had just purchased from Ryerson's sec
rotary. Going around the desk [
} where the millionaire sat in a state o
collapse. he said to him:
First, l must caution you that 1t /
useless for you to try to escape. TIL
drug I have given you has paralyze'
your vocal cords, so that you can no
speak above a whisper. You a no
return to your home until you hav'
told me what l want to know d;
you recognize his paper?"
AS the doctor held the document be
fore the eyes of Mr.. Ryerson the latter
looked al it closely and then excited,
whispered;
Eyes, it is a part of my will, made
less tildll IlNp Nctho aSo' h"b az
you doing with it?"
Ignoring that question DR.. Markey
4 started to read the document aloud:
Section 12-Besides the income OF s200,0G
/, for life | leave to my daughter, Beatrice
Ryerson, the iron chest OF jewels which
she will find in the following manner
I Stand exactly on the sidewalk flagston,
in Newark which / was careful to draw
her attention to on her last birthday
when she will recall that in standing or
the stone | commented that it was loose
and told her she would have good oeca'
sion to remember that exact stone. Witt
a small field glass the steeple OF a chrccf
may be made out from this exact spot
Draw an imaginary line from this steepl'
at an angle of 70 degrees and 46 minutes
with the first line from the stone to the
steeple and in a hLrtheasterly direction
Let this second line be exactly 1858 fee
and 8 inches long, and it will terminate
on a cedar peg which may be found by
scrnplng away the dirt or whatever may
cover it. Then draw another imaginary
line at exactly right angles with The
line from the church, and in a north
westerly direction Let this line extend
G. feet and dig down there about foui
or five feet and the chest will be found
] append the following diagram of loca-
tion of the treasure. the secret being the
location of the loose fagstone in the side
walk: