The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-08-31

i automobile a large case. He set this |
on the floor, and his first movement |
was to proceed to the glass doors, |
thrust them open, survey the space af- |
forded, and then point to the table.
Move it," he said tersely, and Lott |
carried 1t into the adjoining apartment.
There was gas there, and the doctor
lit jet. Then he carried his case
into the room, closed the doors, and
drew from the case glass head with
air tubes at the top He sprinkled
some deodorizing acid about the room
from a bottle, put on pair of gloves,
took out microscope and proceeded
to his strange task.
The foreigner paid no attention to
all this. Marvel did not seem par
ticularly interested. We four were
left in the outer room, but could dis
Germ the Doctors activities through
the connecting door. / noticed Lott
glide to the side Of his master;
caught the words:
THE man 10 from a banana rails
ing country"
Your sixth sense tells you that,
, does it?" responded Marvel lightly.
: Then it must be South America"
How true that instructive sense of
\ odor, of which Lott made theory,
was correct, the examination of the
J satchel by the doctor would soon tell
The illustrious savant rapidly pulled
/ forth it's contents. 1t held nothing
) but few worn garments. Selecting
| skull cap from the litter, upon
| he 11afn
. scope. There were flashes of finely
a mirrored plates and instruments, the
4 application of acids, a mixture of the
4 scrapings of the wool from the cap,
Z massed in a little lake of chemicals.
: Then the doctor closed the satchel,
q poured new bottle of some disinfect-
Q ing agent over it, and replacing his
s analytical gear in its case, came out
s into the larger room.
|, Peru" he said simply to Marvel.
g Southern part. The germs are the
e bacilli. peculiar to that country
g alone. And to the falling sickness
It particularly prevalent there. You will
Q yet come before the great societies
s Lott" he added admiringly. You di
d agnosed it right-a banana country
and the pestilential faint. The man
should talk Spanish" he supplement
ed, with keen glance over the for
eigner.
But he doesn't" responded Marve
tersely. II know what to do now
Thanks, doctor"
He glanced at Lott and motioned mi
to follow him and DR.. Horn. At tn,
street Marvel dismissed the latte
with a nod, proceeded along briskly
hailed the first taxi we met, gave
brief direction, and we we're whir
ed away to street in the foreig
quarter.
Il The taxi halted in front of row
old buildings. Their occupants WEI
II homogeneous. One little store bore
N window full of more varieties of sa
II sages than l expected to exist in Il
entire world. There was store giv'
VI over to Hungarian wines, Japane
/ restaurant and two curio shops.
These were reminders of world
. fair years, of stranded importation
q and Marvel seemed to know the
( like book. It was not five minute
before he reappeared from one {
III L41C NQA AZ BULGE. a ONdI lily A1oA -
/ fez was with him. We were agai
whirling along to our terminus, tn
hotel.
1t was all SO swift, so silent, so in
pressive -MarvePs resistless rush Q
. ideas and events, carrying me alon
irresistibly-that it reminded me G
the changing scenes of motion pic
ture film. The curio man was usher
3 ed into the room where we had lef
Lott and the other. He viewed tn
foreigner with measuring glance
and spoke half a dozen words in
tongue-twisting dialect.
: In an instant the foreigner wa
transformed. Eyes, frame and sou
seemed to awake. He uttered JOY
full cry and flung himself on his knees
of clasping those of the curio man, jail
bering away twixt sobs of delight an
= tears Of relief.
dc Marvel softly rolled a cigarett
al with those deft hands of his, whic
or with equal facility could slip rim
e upon the dainty finger of a debutant
,e- or snap pair of handouts around tn
IN brawny wrists of burglar. | knee
". he OWNED the end of circumstnc
and the beginning of coherenc!
There was a rapid colloquy betwee
- the foreigners. Then there was
- whispered conversation carried on
Marvel and the curio man in a corne
- of the room. The latter returned
-. the prisoner. Some animated discus
- sion ensued. And then the foreigne
"a did a quite remarkable thing.
He removed his shoes, and for th
first time l noticed how broad and no,
% thick were the soles. Their owne
~ looked appealingly at the curio maj
=. who nodded reassuringly, as thong
a. promising protection. The forme
"a took sheI1-like article from his pool
1e ct, stripped back the edge of each sol,
~ tore them lengthwise, and from thos
~ hiding places produced two oblon