Show the maniac doctor it must be confessed that it is a very provoking thin tiling to receive a letter on oil Cliris christmas tinas morning morning calling you two hundred miles away on oil immediate diate and im fill portail if yes it is a very provoking oki thin tiling indeed at least so I 1 found it both in ill anticipation and in deed buttliere was no help for it snooks 1113 ivr etc and told me that if on the I 1 was vas no atac C I 1 should probably lose nover never mind what bu but t so something methin which induced me to pack my portmanteau in in all lias haste te solid send for a liand handsome onic and drive to alie X Y X station when iiI I 1 arrived there I 1 found I 1 was too late for the thain 1 I had wished to catch and that the next one did not start for three quarters of an hour inwardly cursing my ill fortune I 1 went to ta the baitin waiting room and ad to make myself as comfortable as I 1 could but despite all my illy attempts I 1 think thin I 1 never knew time pass so slowly in all my life except a certa certain iii twenty minutes about which I 1 am going to toll tell although as I 1 said the time went very fc lowly nevertheless it did go and in process of time I 1 found myself enscoe ased in a first class carriage which had biad but one occupant besides myself a Jo oking little old man with gray hair aind abid a stran strange ge look about the illy s 1 aska dai directly atly I 1 got into tile carriage lie he adur 1 es me in a familiar way ii amerry ariy Am crry christmas to you he anc mame to you said 1 I rather gruffly i 0 I 1 as it s ivas I 1 nat in the best of humor morand hu it nd did did not feel inclined to be neighborly why ble bless ss me I 1 sir 1 said the little old man renewing the attack attach you have not anything wherewith to keep yourself warm on this cold winters day allow me to offer oner you one of my wrappers I 1 alwa always y s take cire care to bo be well waft provided with such things when I 1 go on oil a journey and my companion took from his side a rolled ii up p rug 1 unrolled it and taking a small mahogany box from the folds threw tile ahe rug to me 1 said 1 feeling in ill spite of rny more cheerful oh to no thanks no thanks thank I 1 do it for my lily own benefit not bouls 1 asslie you how do you make out that why I 1 like to havea have a comfortable fico face opposite me arid and besides the grand cx you know what giand I 1 said somewhat startled by the mans excited manner oil nothing nothing said lie coloring violently only that is ia to say exactly are arc you a freemason no sir 1 I 1 not a freen freemason iason wh why y bless bles mel you ought most eel to become on one c why so I 1 because you would then know that they have got 0 a sort of that is to say in fact a secret va 1 r 1 I 1 know that already Itch Il cally Ily I 1 declare you boti are arc tile the most ex cx nian man I 1 cv ever r met well ive got a too and my illy grand experiment peri ment ent I 1 f j As it is a secret I 1 suppose you will not tell nie me what it is 0 yes I 1 will though 0 but I 1 had better not never mind ill tell you it is simply this to discover what are arc the different feelings ZD of different poisons on OD different occasions occasions 1 I should calls call that an experiment you n ow curious t that 1 yes very curious for to toll tell you tile truth I 1 dont myself know whether I 1 am ju justified ti in calling it an all but enough of tins this fur for the plesent pies may I 1 isk ask you apu whole you ale going to lt to C J 1 have you any friends there none I 1 am sorry sorry to say bay I 1 am called thoice on rome disagreeable though diw C 0 business 10 then may I 1 have the pleasure of your company to dinner alt ci ca thank you I 1 shall hall have the greatest g r atac pleasure in accepting your kind invitation 13 bj jhc thc by do you know liow how firmy ninny times we stop beffi c we i each C P only twice as this is an all express train once at AK at 2 and second at I 1 F at 5 and when lie aie wo we due at C at half past six I 1 believe thank you thus for fora a time our conversation ended but we often renewed it again and I 1 bogan began boan bean an to lc legal aid d my illy companion as a clever kind hearted though lather eccentric old man some time after we had passed nf my lily fi biond composed himself fl for or A sloop sleep and was soon snoring and it WAS not long beaole I 1 followed liis his example my were troubled first of all I 1 was being hung then that I 1 was being 0 handcuffed and last of all that a great wei weight lit was upon me and that something was pressing heavily liea vily upon my chest I 1 then woke with a start to find myself bound hand and foot with a rope passed round my neck and fastened to the umbrella rack behind in such a manner that if I 1 struggled in ill the least I 1 should inevitably choke myself and my follow fellow oler cler was standing over me with one anoe on my chest what ale aie you doing 0 11 said I 1 butina but my sentence was cut short by a gag aall I 1 which my eccentric friend into my lily mouth and tied behind rny my head lie ile then stood away to look at liis his handiwork with eyes glaring like those of a wild boast blasl and liis his whole frame trembling with excitement naw now ll 11 lie said with a wild laugh now no ahall I hall bo be able to try my iny grand gr and ex cx ont I 1 now inow I 1 shall isaiall bo bo able a ble to lind find whether tile the ficai t can be extracted detracted while a nian man is alive b without v etli 0 llo killing him picc I 1 have failed but i it tho have told me that a third abird time I 1 ahall not fail 0 fame faille glory immortality I 1 have you ill in my illy grasp what pitiful fool do you will pale arid and tremble if you lie die you will vill die a glorious martyr to science arid and if you live you and I 1 will shafic the glory of this grand discovery ill 1 from this ridiculous I 1 perceived that my pleasant ti aveling companion was a raving idamac maniac what was I 1 to do I 1 could not move inove land hand or foot or even speak and the alie madman was arranging ana aria nging 0 on the seat scat in ill fiant of me a collection of bright brinit steel ansti installments instalments ti ments which lio lie took from the mahogany box which I 1 have mentioned was ava there any help for me ine I 1 tried to remember ber liow how toll long it was after wo left at 1 1 before I 1 went asleep as I 1 Illi thought ought 7 if we got ot to F P thc jhc maniac would bo be dincov acied and I 1 should be from tile the horrible death which now seemed imminent but as I 1 hall biad been dozing 0 sonic some time I 1 went ic off to sleep bleyl I 1 found that I 1 could not in ill the least i binchi ber what time had passed after some time spent in preparing pic pie paring 0 liis his instruments my iny began to pie pale paio me ine by unbuttoning my waistcoat and baling my bicart at length everything seemed to be to his hi satisfaction ancho and lie took up a knife cecii bladed knife I 1 shall never 11 foigel 61 get my lily sensations when I 1 saw that little glittering instrument so soon to be dyed with my illy blood I 1 f felt a cold shudder itin inn through my iny body and I 1 lon longed 0 ed to close my illy eyes but they seemed to keep open by a of horrible bacina tion after liying the edge of the knife and preparing a clothe 1 and z giving one final look to liis his ij instruments ajr un ailt b my lily eccentric friend pressed liis his linger lille lill e r close above my heat t and said this is liow how I 1 am going to manage it my friend 1 I am going to cut a circle in the flesh above the with this knife it T will not hint t much as I 1 shall only just cut through the abkin bam and aid the knife is exceedingly cee 0 I 1 shall then proceed to dig deeper with this ansti instrument ciment and finally extract the heart with this tile leader may inay inia imagine ine my illy sensations during this cold bloody recital fol foi I 1 am tit telly unable to describe them but whon when the sharp steel first pierced pierce d my y fles flesh I 1 and I 1 felt the blood flowing out and my past life seemed to pass pabs wow my illy mind in a moment of time only to make my desire of still living and the lionor honor of in an ignominious death tenfold greater slowly the sharp knife plowed in my lily flesh making my lily blood freeze in my illy veins and my lily eye balls burn arid and seem ivady to burst irom from their sockets and now I 1 felt my illy reason gradually gra dully leaving 13 nic me the strain upon illy myn cres es was too much I 1 felt they must give way but I 1 considered il latif they did my illy only hope should be choked with tile the lope around my neck slowly the svaip stool steel impelled by a steady hand continued its deadly course and now the was neally accomplished when I 1 felt that the speed of the thain was being gradually diminished A lay of hope illuminated my fieast I 1 looked into int my companions eyes to see sec if lie too noticed that we F but lie was too intent on oil hisa lii ible at length lie ho back and said concluded on lit paye page ca continued fi ont dm JW rage there th re low about abod an ich inch k moie ince tile the deep cutting cuttill ut till and I 1 shall colunio commence only about and inch I 1 and tha station off only about in an was yet sonic some way inch hinchl I 1 my lito life hung upon tile the tin cad it was not long t that tile his diabolical lie he soon foil fell again but I 1 saw the lights of F station flash past the windows of the car liage biage I 1 saw a stian strange c aini aim seize my lily toi in etol I 1 heard a loud and appalling cly like that of a baffled wild beast and I 1 became insensible for weeks after this I 1 lay between life rind and death in a blain bhain fever brought on oil by the intense excitement and fear of those twenty minutes I 1 af afterwards tei wards learned that my illy pleasant companion had been a doctor and sui su surgeon igeon but that lie was a young youn man and just inar lied having ill opeia oceia tion to extract a cancer biorn his wife of which she afterwards died lie he went out of his mind and had over ever since been attempting in to escape in older that lie might tillight per boim fol ni the dreadful die adful experiment which so really lesul resulted ted in ill my death tun tim fiur WORT word president Pre lincoln is is i not a polished speaker neither does docs 1 lie 10 wield a polished poll pen but lie lias has a way often of saying the fitting thin tiling 0 ing the right 0 thought 0 or feeling cling le in ill homely that gives give to the thought 0 or feeling in 0 its due place above all ien aid to me macic le style thus is gained a power in the way of an emphatic aud and direct simplicity which readies reaches and holds every reader or licater li caler in ili the pie of tile the fine sincere and sentiment the absence of the classical finish is not felt fe I 1 t an impressive illustration of this is the brief dedicatory speech at gettysburg As by tele 0 laph it is lough bough and but th alie e uncut is full of jewels tile the ideas of duty are arc it almost stammered out but they ale the noble ideas the times demand as the inspiration not only of public opinion but of public action also aiso one sentence should shine in letters of gold old throughout the laud land as an c hoi tation to wake up apathetic and indolent patriotism it j is s for us the living in g rather to be dedicated bicic to tile unfinished that they have thus so BO fill fai nobly carried on 11 this aliis affirmation affirmation embodies the practical lesson I 1 by the ce ic at gettysburg tys burg g those ceremonies will be but a poor pool and empty honor to the lead dead if the th c li living leave their dust after uttering or listening to tile the words of eulogy 10 11 Y to its silent rest without imitating 0 alie ti ic example sot set in ill their lives from thosa set in ill the 0 garden loyalty must go a determination do to I 1 escue and save tile republic Ec public else its honor baill pa id to tile the dead to ill will nill be haddly more illogic than hall a sensational mockery |