Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-05


what Ia do, the young man said
You won't send us to prison if |
/ toll YOU the whole story:'''
I'm do my best for you. il you make
i cl""n breast 81 Il: but the cQutcmta
u: these boxes must he restored TO
Ihcir owners. ,nr your Cousins sake /.
nothing else. promise ~ shu: my
eyes 20 Your escaping With your hux-
band, before amy public revelation H.
mace. provided I'm satisfied that you
/ cell me the whole truth now
Il viii. OH, VIII You know Morley
would have had this place IL common
Justice had been done-lf the entail
hadn't been broken"
All. he Is the heir Of whom Miss
Chester spoke"
"of course, who else could be. lIc'a
the only one left in the male live And
;h'nk what il WAS for. him to lind out
through expert. whose word Ia,
couldn't doubt. tina; there's coal
enough under the park to make him an
immensely rich man. if only he hn,n'i
been robbed OF his rights
HE didn't tell Miss Chester Of ,hi;,
discovery"
"N:turaily not, If she or he,
mother gave up living here the estut"
would come TO him after all. lic
/ hoped for that. And when II. heard
OF her plan To open kind OF hotel he
.
10 .n:.na%e the business. rha; was he
cause he had an idea. which lie hoped
he could work. His father who died
When Morley was Il boy. was profess
S"i OF chemistry. and m.dc some clever
inventions and discoveries. but they
never brought in money There was,
one thing ne found after spending =
year III Persia for his health. lie dis
covered that out of plant therc--:t
plant no one had ever thought OF inn
+ h,f Il IL
produced which would make people.
unconscious. ut the same time causing
their muscles 10 remain So rigid thnt
II they We're standing they would re-.
main their feet. or would not drop
what they might be holding IN Their
hands. When they came TO them
selves again they woulu not feel III.
would not even know they had lost
consciousness for u moment
"Morlry'S father was much cxcit,t
about this preparations. and hoped i;
would be az important curarc. IL
40: chloroform. He named the stun
a:cnoform. AS nearly as possible after
the plant; and published his discovery
TO the medical profession. But then
cancii dreadful blow. After many cx-
pcrimentS TO change and impfovS il,
nothing could be done to prolong un-
consciousness enough to make arcno-
form really useful To doctors and sur
EconS. The effect wouldn't las; longer
, tI"utS We're terribly exhausted nest
dag. 80 that the stun would not do
even Tor d"u;istS In extracting teeth
aS II MAS more depressing than gas
One az ia" most wonderful things
about II was that Il lot Of people could
be made unconscious at once. even in
~ b;= room. by Il spray of ;tr.,ioforIn
ii"itinG in tn" air. But thouI,h tho
was curious ana intcrcsrinE il W.
not 81 pr"ctica! use. so nrenofo.m was
Il failure.
'rhe disappointment was 50 great
that M"rI"y's father was mover the
Same again He Away" hoped that
SOM" experiment would make The
thing " success. and. instead OF gain
ing the fortune he expected. he spent
more money than he could spare from
ms iain!Iy III importing quantities Of
IN" plant from Persia. ANA m:nufac-
turing the extract in his own !abora-
tory. Then he died. and there wer.
hundreds and hundreds Of The bottlcu
in the house. Of no use tn anybody:
bu, Morley had promised his diving
father not to let them be destroyed
every one forgot the discovery of
hrcn"f"rm. for YOU see Dr. Chester has
b"cii dchd twenty years. Only Morl,,y
uIhn forget; and il was the existence
OF that quantity OF arcnoform In the
house left him by his father which
pat the idea Of coming here into his
mead. lie experimental with the stun
va 80 '''," i"hi" IL WAS 'tS powerful
as on the dag IT was made. Then he
~ ",'" PROMISED |" help in any
Next I" the dining hall on one side
ana separating il from the two room"
"acd "S private sitting rooms fot
EucStH' * :, long. rather ugly room
which Morley asked Sidney To give hin,
as a. pil>ht" ci'Icc. Night after night
ne ""iKcd there before the house was
opened 70 IN" public. and aftcrward
w., ~ i''bhE ms scheme. He Derfo-
,'tr" tl' Walls, $50 that, by means Of u
- ''oN''"'c machine which could
srn,..i, OF "rch"f"rm could he
"a" ~" 'hrpHSn the oak wainScoting
~ - - nv lining mail on one SiCc
u' ~ wv" S'ttlnE-rooms on the sthcc
~ ne "'" '.i1iahl"s arranged along
~ VII ana as one popularity Of
u'"i 1'.H ~ mat IL smells like wood
80 49,, III! me- old oak-no dctec-
' .""." NAY. suspected anything by
coming 10 sniff about the place after
wainscotinc mr.. ions IN the
seem no dirfo,n.,, H't"H mat they
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