The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-12-04

II really couldn't use it." Mi
chael said. "Tell Jim to give it to
some kid il he doesn't want it.
It's kids bike"
yep. that's what was thinkin'
or, Jameson said.
Michael took out his cigarette
case. 81 think you'd better have a
cigarette. Bill. Calm you down."
Bill accepted the proffered
smoke. "Any time you want to
start passing out the cigars I'll be
around right handy" he grinned
again.
He lit his own cigarette and put
the case back.
They smoked for a moment in
silence. Jameson turned suddenly
to Michael. "Was there something
you was wanting, Mr.. Forester?
Something ! can do for your"
No thanks, Bill. Just dropped
in on my way home to say hello.
We're living out on the campus
now, you know"
"Oh, are you? No. I didn't know.
One Of them houses on the Horse
shoe?"
"That's it." Michael looked at
Bills necktie. ."The Murchison
house."
Jameson frowned. 81 knew he
was gone away. Good radiance,
says l. It'd be a good thing for the
University if he'd never come
back, but Of course there is no such
luck"
"You don't like him, Bill?"
Jameson considered, cycling the
cabinet beside him full of grue-
some relics and strange models.
Hes not so bad if you just meet
him around the halls. Not so bad
at all. Kind of short, always has
his nose up in the air, but there's
good many worse around here.
But it's when he gets inside the
lab that he turns into a regular
devil" He shook his head. eve
had an awful fracas around here
last summer" he concluded.
'Shrieks And Yells'
II HEARD something about it."
1 Michael murmured. He in
spected the glowing end of his
cigarette critically. Something
about vivisection, wasn't it? Some
body started afuss?"
"And good reason they had too"
Jameson took out a tremendous
white handkerchief and mopped
his face. "The shrieks and yells
comm out from the lab was some
thin fierce, Mr.. Forester. And
mostly always it was in the dead
of night. and people was scared
to go past the Building. ! come up
here myself once just to listen,
and it was awful, the row goin'
on inside"
what aoas going on, Bill?"
Jameson shook his head. "No-
body ever saw the inside, Mr.. For
roster. The door was locked and
there was somethin' hung over the
keyhole. | make no bones about
i'll tried to see inside. / never
heard the like of it since / come
here twenty years ago. 1t was
fierce"
t'But they put a stop to it, you
say. Who did? What did they put
a stop to? How did they go about
it?"
well, I guess it was the Coun-
Gil it was took up with, or the
President maybe. He didn't know
nothing about il, of course. He
doesn't spend his nights shopping
and spying around the Medical
Building. People complained of
the row. and a delegation finally
come to Murchison. l was right
here in the hall when they come.
They knocked on the door--it was
pretty early one morning-and
Murchison opened it, all dressed
in his long white coat with rubber
gloves on his hands"
''Was he in the middle Of one
of his-experiments?" Michael
asked, as Bill paused with grim
ace of distaste.
mo. At least, not in the middle
OF one of the fierce ones where he
tortured poor innocent dumb
beasts. Not so dumb at that, if you
could hear them yowling." jane
son paused. then, went on. "Of
course, he was always in the mid
die of some experiment. Fair daft
he was, about experiments. I don't
know what about, although /
know he made new medicines
sometimes. He gave me a bottle
OF stuff years ago that cured that
pain in my shoulder like nothin'.
and half a dozen doctors couldn't
do nothin' with it before that"
Bill stroked his shoulder tenderly.
"You couldn't get me to take
nothin' he makes now. though"
he said grimly.
II suppose he was pretty sore
at the delegation"
jameson came back to the sub
ject. Eyes, you could see that.
They told him what was the mat
ter, that it was gettin' too thick,
besides bein' against all the laws
OF human decency and so on, and
he just stood there gettin' whittier
and whittier and never said word.
And then he asked them what
proof they had that he was tortur-
ing dumb animals, or torturing
anything"
aAnd them"
well, Of course they told him
about the noises in the middle Of
the night, and that they'd been to
the pound and found out about
the standing order he had there
for big healthy dogs and cats to
be delivered TO him in the eve
| ming, and he was caught. But he
didn't give in to the end. He made
them show him the order. all