The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-04-02

how the bacilli will cluster and clump
and lose their motion"
DIR. Young deity adjusted the slide
and with delicate manipulation COM
pleted the test. The reaction was
typical.
How interesting" said the charm
ing girl who was being initiated into
some of the more striking phenomena
of the laboratory. If indeed she was
not sincere in her profession of inter
est for these somewhat unaesthetic
technicalities, she certainly did not
fail to find attraction in the handsome
young physician who was demonstrate
ing them. Her eyes followed him in
every movement and beamed with ad-
miration and sympathy.
And are these real live germs, the
kind that cause all the mischief"
she inquired.
There are enough bacilli in that
tube of bouillon to give typhoid to an
entire city"
She gave playful little scream and
stepped back. "Oh. how dreadful!
And how dangerous you are who work
with those things every day! believe
| shall have to be careful how close
let you come"
You needn't fear. See, now they are
safely slowed away in the incubator,
and here go my hands in the anti
septics. l shall be perfectly safe
again.
From the by-play that followed 1t
was evident that she took his word
for it,
after tomorrow you will hear the
scientists talking of the Young test
just as they now do of the Vidal test
It's a. reaction | have discovered to
establish the identity of the cholera
germ, and there is a test-tube culture
of cholera in that incubator that may
make my name famous. I've grown
them under certain new conditions.
| At the medical meeting tomorrow
night they will be the illustration of
my maiden paper / can't explain to
you just what manipulations | shall
make to cause the reaction that will
show that 1t is cholera and nothing
else, for you wouldn't understand it.
|
you. I'm bore when | get on my
hobby. You'll excuse me-"
| why, Jack, you know I'm terribly
interested in science, and especially
in what you accomplish, Oh, l know
we're all going to be proud of YOU"
They walked out of the laboratory
together-perhaps closer than the
| IF he or
| But a hospital laboratory is an un.
canny place, and one would naturally
lean toward the confident guide who
possessed such a mastery over its
sinister elements.
There were two other occupants OF
the laboratory. The doctor and his
fair visitor had not been unconscious
of their presence-merely oblivious to
it, Perhaps they might have been less
self-sufficiently comfortable had they
observed the attention with which
their dialogue had been noted.
Penton, a junior house physician
was the first to speak. Connected
fool, that man Young. It's more lucl
than sense that has given him his
advancement. He never did anything
wonderful at college when l was IL
his class. Humph. never had to give
way to him then. But he had the
cash and could go right on and ! hat
to drop out a year and work. Now
I'm taking orders from him! Makini
discoveries Just his luck to fall int
something new. They'll all pat hin
on the back whether 1t amounts Il
anything or not Then there'll be nj
living with him"
Penton looked bitterly envious. blu
Heller, the pharmacist, evidently bar
bored deeper feeling. His face bor'
the picture of jealousy and hatred
Yet, he spoke lightly.
She's a mighty pretty girl. tina
Miss Alden. He seems to stand yer.
well with her. But there's many
slip-ha!" His chuckle sounded harsl
and unnatural
We'll, / must be going" said Pen
ton. He glanced back furtively at tn
incubator as he left the laboratory.
Heller paced nefvously up and dow
the room. Ten years ago YounI
whipped me for something ! said L
that same little Alden GIRL" he NUT
tered. He has crossed me a dozel
times since that She and got alon
well enough as school-mates until b
became acquainted with her; the
he made a good deal of her bushes
his own. The last few years she ha
not even bowed to me. I can Sc
whose influence that is. And tina
other deal He had TO discover II
regularity in my method of buyin
drugs, Claims he'll report me as 500
as he has completed his investigation
Pretty sort he is, No other hous
physician ever made 1t his bushes
to find out where ! bought the drug
or what | paid for them. or whethe
got anything out of IT, Humph
suppose my job is gone.
What a LOT of deadly rubbish
Che paused before the door of the Ii
cubator)-liying poisons kept mutt
plying by that heat More deadly tina
barrels OF arsenic Lord, And n
one can tell more than that the viz
tim has contracted the disease. Let
see this little plaything" He opene
the door of the oven and took out
tube-culture. He started suddenly q
though frightened at the trend Of hi
own thoughts.
Heller. have you the key OF th
! drau