Evening star., 1936-09-06
The Invention Of DR.. Cober
Continued from pcge seven
Continued from pose seven

had photographs OF him in every
paper. Well, naturally Caber didn't
try to dissuade him; he merely
pocketed his second thousand.
Il think fortnight was all it took.
Of course he never told me how he did
it. l fancy he used cocktails a good
deal; distilled essences of them, you
know; and of course a great many
other things. He never told me that.
But he told me much more than what
came out later. The course was going
perfectly satisfactorily. he told me.
Boran was aging all over; every
evening when Caber made his obser-
vations at the same hour, in the room
in which he hid Boran, he could see
definite progress; and at the end of
ten days the white hairs were coming
on nicely. Everything else of course
was keeping pace. Boran was fattening
rapidly and developing a beautiful
stoop.
'At the end of the fortnight Boran
might have gone to any police station
in London and said, I am Boran, the
man that did that murder and con-
viction would have been impossible.
SO he should have had another ten
years to live if his makeup was timed
to run down at seventy; but there was
no end to that fortnight for Boran.
1T wasn't any anasthetic; he
didn't have any. In fact, it was
nothing that came out at the inquest.
Not word of that was true. 1t was
merely that Boran's constitution, or
whatever you call it, was timed to run
to about fifty-eight. Call it Fate, if
you like. The way look at it is that
men die at various ages, according to
their makeup. and fifty-eight was
Boran's time"
But Boran was only twenty"
blurted out Terbut.
Il told you," said Jorkens, pa
tiently. that Caber was making him
older. He was aging him in every
respect. After twelve days. Boran
began to show symptoms that a
proper doctor would have recognized.
Heart trouble, l fancy. BY dawn on
the thirteenth day Caber was getting
alarmed. He tried every remedy then
of which he knew anything. against
a most deadly disease."
Dear me-" said Terbut. what is
that?"
"Old age" said Jorkens. "Well,
Caber didn't make any headway, and
by the time that people were about,
Boran was dead. 1t was a nasty
position for Caber. Boran looked
younger when he was dead, and Caber
pulled out his white hairs and smart
ened him up bit, and managed to
get him identified. He was naturally
keen that, if he had to have corpse
in his house, he could say it was the
body of someone that Scotland Yard
wanted to hang; but, even then, he
felt himself in the position of a
poacher who has shot fox that the
foxhounds are hunting.
"And that's very much the position
that he was in, too. But in the end,
Scotland Yard, wanting to see Boran
dead, took the view that, provided
, Caber hadn't actually murdered him,
they could afford to do without the
trial and the hanging of Boran. And of
course Caber hadn't murdered him;
so there was that inquest and the
evidence that you read. And that is
really about all that Caber told me-"
"He seems to have told you a good
deal," said Terbut.
"a certain amount" said Jorkens.
II WONDER" said Terbut, ''how one
manages to get man like that to tell
one so much"
Personally" said Jorkens. II got
him to tell it to me for an old tie"
IAN old tie?" said Terbut.
Yes" said Jorkens, "our old school
tie. 1t can be got only by those that