The Washington times., 1912-05-21

duu cut out Ine s
ing noise in his throat, and Banks
obeyed dazedly. He pounded here and
there and everywhere. He listened af-
ter every pound.
And again he stood I'D and rubbed his
eyes and walked to a cabinet and
brought forth a weird apparatus with
candle and a few dozen other acces-
sories. The attendants seemed to un-
derstand, for they set Banks down be-
fore table and a disk was fixed In
front of his eye.
The doctor. lighted the candle and
squinted hard for many minutes. He
Strengthened UP at last and shook his
head and apparently thought hard.
And at last, leaving the darker man
person aside. And again Banks was al
lowed to catch whispered scraps of con-
versation.
"oueer!'' said the doctor, There is
thing seems to point In the opposite d.
rection."
The attendant nodded acquiescently.
You're sure he arrived as arrangedG
And his money was paid in advance.
with assurances Of the rest later"
"Certainly% The attendants slnp,. hssd head
all Instructions this afternoon"
well" The young doctor scratched
his head and smiled dryly. Then. l
suppose 1t must be a mild case Or
he looked at his watch. Here! l
ought tu be away from here now"
Then"
Take hin. to 14!' snapped the young
er nan. '1'll be there directly"
He left with a rush.
Banks sat up in his chair. His breath
was rstunS; h III an1 witn e IL G ms psnaTed p9msd
to formulate few things he wanted 10
cay, and he was prepared TO deliver
th:m pr,.peIly Iyn,,! now. y. ard; tCar.d
SAY, DO, shut .up!' cautioned the
blond man. You're here for your own
good, and If you shove off the , hysr
to walk in here and step, on you! Cut
1t out! Be nice! Come along?'
The advice was accompanied by a jerk
which brought Mr.. Banks to his feet,
painting and paralyzed.
He guped.
He sought to roar out proper COM
ments on the situation.
He licked his lips and prepared to de-
liver fitting and appropriate sentiments
on what was transpiring-and at just
SHrd that That time Sod the 1So caTTed b
into the corrid or, where an astonishing
ly ready elevator awaited.
They thrust him inward. The placid
negro turned the handle, and in sec
ond or two they were at the second
floor. Mr.. Banks was removed. He
was pushed resistlessly along the corri-
dor. A door was opened and he was
forced into an illuminated bedroom.
It was a nice sort of apartment, II one
like that sort of apartment. There was
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chairs and dressing tables and bureaus
and the like.
But il was not the sort of apartment
that Banks proposed to occupy at pres
capable of 'eXhausting the ink in the
average fountain pen he has more or
less Of a right to choose his locale; and
this place did not suit Banks at all.
Therefore, having been jammed to the
bed. he sat up promptly and emitted one
inarticulate roar, which ended in:
"You scoundreis! Let me out of here
The impassive blond man precipitated
hand over his mouth remarked wearily
willie, do you want to have Turk
ish towel jammed down yer throat OIL
not? Because that's coming if you
don't shut up. What?'
Yes, you! You're going to be quiet
You We kicked up too much trouble al
The attendant himself paused. Some
one had entered and 1t happened to be
the young doctor, with several bottles
In one hand and several glasses in the
the other.
bewildered terror, the collection was set
down upon a table. The darker attend
ant brought a pitcher of water. A con-
coction was mixed in one glass. An
other concoction was mixed in another
glass. And still another concoction was
mixed In another glass-and the young
uOClOT lutHGu ".tH determined dnC
sinister smile.
"Readv?"
The blond man nodded; The doctor
glasses ard faced Banks.
peacefully or Otherwise" he queried
e fS Hsde to R mift an fsmd hoar and at 'fs he
going to stand any fooling."
"Ill see you in - Mr.. Banks
howled as he was allowed to sit up.
10 q lEe
medicine? 1t is not exactly nice oper.
alton. Somebody takes the dog and
holds both himself and his nose. Some.
body else inserts his fingers in doggie's
mouth and propts 1t OPEN and the medi.
cine goes down because 1t has nowhere
else TO go and the dog has no chance
This is much what happened to Mr.
Worden Banks. He was aware that he
was reclining and that something was
tricklinG. willy-nilly, down his throat
He knew that one entire glass of the
something had entered his august being
and that another was poised and ready
He knew, too, that the second glass
was going down, and that he was help
less. Therefore, being az man of sense
he swallowed as quickly as possible. The
second glass was gone and the thlrC
coming. He gluped 1t down.
Well, there was another prolonged
pause,. .-- 49,,
they must work into an account oi
actual happenings IL the account is tC
be veTacious.
This was really quite a long pause
IT came partly from exhaustion or
Banks part, perhaps: and perhap'
partly from the medicine. At any
rate, It was a pause in which Banks
seemed semi conscious for a consid'
cradle time. Nothing seemed to b.
happening, for doctor and bottles ant
glasses and the darker attendant hat
disappeared together when he got his
senses and ceased the automatic
gulping.
He looked around dazedly. He wa!
in an armchair and the blond attend
ant was sitting across the room
watching him without much interest
IIa rubbed his brow and licked hi
lips.
He felt slightly queer. Otherwise
he felt quite normal. In short HI
felt very much as II he was prepared