The Dream Doctor

nsiderably without throwing much light on the case. She had been busy because her day was full, and she had yet to dress the hair of Miss Blaisdell for her play that night. Several times

few seconds to reassure her th

od girl." Agnes had gone, though it was decidedly no part of her duty as one of the highest paid employes of the Novella. But they all envied the popular actress, and were ready to do anything for her. The next thing she remembered was finishing the coiffure she was working on and going to Miss

ote or perhaps wrote it must have reasoned that an answer would be written immediately. That person figured that the note would be the next thing written and that the top envelope of the pile would be used. That person knew of the deadly qualities of too much

, "how about the

oison. I think you will see why that

were, to the final test. He spent the rest of the day working at the hospital with Dr. Barron, adjusting a very delicate p

-spindled wheel, governed by a chronometer which erred only a second a day. Between the poles of the galvanometer was stretched a slender thread of fused quartz plated with silver, only on

the five spindles of the wheel, which turned once a second, thus marking the picture off into exact fifths of a second. The vibrations of the microscopic quartz thread were enormously magnified on the sensitive film by a lens and resulted in produc

was arranging were not to be held at the hospital at all, but in his laboratory,

e on the rather ticklish errand of gathering together all those who had bee

t it was learned that he was a patient of Millefleur's and had been at the Novella that fatal afternoon. He seemed to realise that escape was impossible. Dayton was one of those typical young fellows, tall, with sloping shoulders and a carefully acquired English manner, whom one sees in scores on

g at the truth, and that if he needed an excuse himself for being present it was suggested that he appear as protecting his wife's interests as a lawyer. Kennedy had added that I might tell him orally that he

llefleur were brought up from the house of detention, to which both O'Connor and Dr. Leslie had insisted that they be sent. Millefleur was still bewailing the fate of the Novella, and Madame had begun to show evidences of lack of the con

he cause of estrangement was removed a tactful mutual friend might have brought about a reconciliation. Hugh Dayton swaggered in, his nervousness gone or at least controlled. I passed behind him once, and the odour

d the forearms of each of us with cloths steeped in a solution of salt. Upon these cloths he placed little pl

as first merely a curiosity. Now it is used for many practical things, and one of the latest uses is as a medicine. It is a constituent of the body, and many doctors believe that the lack of it causes, and that its presence will cure, many ills. But it is a virulent and toxic drug, and no physician except one who knows his business th

effect on his little audience. Then he paused,

t with such exquisite accuracy that it gives Dr. Barron, who is up there now, not merely a diagram of the throbbing organ of each of you seated here in my laboratory a mile away, but a sort of moving-picture of the emotions by which each h

ught that the little wires that ran back of the screen from the ar

wire its own telltale record to the machine which registers it. The thing takes us all the way back to Galvani, who was the first to observe and study animal electricity. The heart makes only one three-thousandth of a volt of electricity at each beat. It would take over two hundred thousand men to light one of these incandescent la

the fear of discovery sink de

e heart but the successive waves of emotion that vary the form of those beats. Every normal individual gives what we call an 'electro-cardiogram,' which follows a certain type. The photographic film on which this is being recorded is ruled so that at the heart station Dr. Barron can read it. There are five waves to each heart-beat, which he letters P, Q, R, S, and T, two below and

neighbour, as if all were trying vainly t

s familiar with the ether phosphore. This person knew Miss Blaisdell well, saw her there, knew she was there for the purpose of frustrating that person's own dearest hopes. That person wrote her the note, and knowing that she would ask for paper and an envelope in order to answer it, poisoned the f

it on her lips, and the brightness went away. I-

xing her eye as he had when he h

obbed, shrinking back as if th

the traces of the poison after he discovered it, in ord

tinkled. Craig se

Kennedy. You received

time to study the rec

. I'll see you very soo

th you.

an tell what the lines in a spectrum mean. He can see the invisible, hear the inaudible, feel the intangible, with mathematical precision. Barron has now read the electro-cardiograms. Each is a picture of the beating of the heart that made it, and each smallest variation has a meaning to him. Every passion, every

burst and tell the secret before her lips could frame the words, "yes, I killed her, and I would follow her to the end of the earth if I had not suc

nly striven to equal her in beauty and win back her husband's love broke forth. She was wo

felt the spell. It was not crime that

ing Kennedy. Then the colour slowly

ars she had longed and striven for again. She looked rather t

into her ear, "with all my power as

felt her pulse as she dropped limply in

fessor Kennedy agrees, let us forget what has happened here to-night. I will direct my jury to bring in a verdict of suicide. C

'Connor, was touched by it and under the circumstances did what seemed to him his higher duty with a tact of which I had bel

o that she might have the best medical attention to prolong her life for the f

nections with the string galvanometer, after all had gone. "Just suppose th

brusquely. "To-morrow will be time enough to clear up thi

oratory, starting off at a brisk pace in the moonlight across the campus to the

after a long period of keen mental stress, there is nothing like physical ex

When I am working hard on a case-well, I have my own violent reaction against it-more work of a different kind. Others choose white lights, red wines and blue feelings afterwar

here he was running over in his

undressing. "That walk was just what I needed. When the fever of dissipa

company him, for on the library table he had scrawled a little note, "Studying East Side to-day. Will keep in touch with you. Craig." My daily task

ven before I had a chance to get as far as my own desk. It was from Kennedy at the laboratory and

and Central," it r

ped down in the elevator to the subway. As quickly as an

met me at the entrance through which he had r

and dragging me down a ramp to the train tha

y, as the train started.

we were observed. "She is going back on this train. I am not to recognise her at the station, b

Mechanically I glanced at the name as he handed the card to me. Craig was w

I gasped, still staring at the name of the da

Kennedy in an undertone, "so much so that, apparently, she is the only person he felt he dared trust with a message to

ten-million-dollar loan to relieve the money stringency there. Surely there must be some mistake in all this. In fact, as I recall it, one of the foreign bankers who is tryi

tter-paper such as is often used for foreign correspondence. "Such

in a cramped

N, Woodrock

s we have raised the standard of conflict without truce or quarter against reaction. If you and the American

THERHOOD OF

ly. "What is the Red

e gospel of terror and violence in the cause of liberty and union of some of the peoples of southeastern Europe. Anyhow, it keep

cretly that Brixton can

as

as I could gather, however, he does not suspect Wachtmann himself. Miss Brixton seemed to think that there were some enemies of the

etic girl just out of college, had preceded us, and as her own car shot out from the station p

library at the side of the house. From the library we entered another door, then down a flight of steps which must have brought us below an ope

door with heavy bolts and a combination lock of a characte

e house. Then we turned at a right angle facing toward the back of the house but well to one side of it. It must have