Show would like to see him?” she queried significantly 1 looked at her and nodded “I know the manager” she aaid “I will go and speak to him She Jumped up and left me In a few minutes she returned “I believe Mr Aldis will eee you” sle said "A message has been sent to his apartments He Is very ill but has refused to see any of the doctors of the place I managed to have the Information conveyed to him that you are a specialist In malaria a celebrated American scientist and It 7 v V Uis possible that you may be allowed to prescribe for him” (Copyright by W Q Chapman) "In that case” I aaid' “I will leave At tbe age of 32 Dr George Match-a- regard to Rachel Denza's engagement the hotel for a few minutes If a meswas a highly respected member of In the first place the marriage be- sage comes in my absence keep It tween must An her and Capt Channlng the New York medical fraternity for me will you?" I I went straight to Shepheard's Investigator of unusual skill and acute- be performed between now and the ness the discoveries he made and the first of January next year for by the reached my own room and Becured the papers he had written concerning thenl will of Geoffrey Channing’s late bottle containing my pet mosquitoes eccentric Edward he In uncle him proa wide I this care Marbury reputation gained with extreme Opening We were close loses a large estate unless he marries transferred two of the winged insects fessional circles friends and when on his return from before that date Geoffrey Is well off to another and smaller bottle These a prolonged visit to Italy he called without this money but with it he will I christened on the spot Lucifer and at my house I was shocked by the be extremely rich able to give his wife Diabolls my Instruments of venYou will be surprised thin every luxury He was change in the man geance They immediately settled at haggard yellow of complexion and it when I tell yoii that Geoffrey and I the bottom of the bottle They apdid not astonish me when he volun- are first cousins that Eld ward Mar- peared to be languid doubtless beteered the Information that he was suf- bury was the uncle with whom I spent cause of the lack of their proper food fering from malaria In a peculiarly ma- the greater part of my youth and that I slipped the bottle Into my pocket If by any chance Geoffrey should fall surform however did It Tbe to lignant and went back the Continental prise me when he stated that he had to marry before the first of January concierge met me and said that Mr resolved to allow nature to take its has expired I Marian Fletcher would Aldis desired me to pay him a visit course and would not enlist medical come in for the property which he and I went at once to tbe sick man's His match with Rachel Is room aid to fight the disease He remarked would lose He was far gone indeed with and certainly a love affair for they are acute malignant malaria that he was doomed He told me calmly no argument to the contrary proved both very devotgjj- - Forgive me— I that he had contracted it In New of any avail Furthermore he de- hare sometimes fancied that you had Guinea clared that when he died a manuscript a tender place In your heart for the "I shall never go out aagln” he said to death lovely Miss Denza Do you too lose “until they carry me away from here explaining his indifference would be placed in my hands Three by this marriage? If so we ought to I have declined however to go to a each If with other for he sympathize months later the event which you hospital and I do not want a nurse I prophesied came to pass He was lose the woman I lose the fortune Be- can manage myself” found dead in his study having finally fore concluding I may mention that As he spoke he cowered close to the succumbed to the Inroads of the mal- Col Denza bas not been well and his fireplace I took out my small bottle doctor has ordered him to winter In and unpercelved A manuscript among his effects ady by him removed tbe sealed and addressed to me was Cairo Tbe entire party go to Egypt cork and let one of tbe where to its destination It about the middle of November duly forwarded mosquitoes free I then turncontained tbe following history which they will remain until after the wed- ed and sat down near the patient I will give in Matcham’s own words: ding Capt Channlng of course ac- Presently there sounded on my ears companies them and so also does your the musical hum of the It was about a year ago that humble servant I wonder if the condiscoveries with re- gratulations published you sent Rachel were to malaria aroused my interest really from your heart gard and I determined to make investiga"Yours sincerely Marian Fletcher” tions on his lines for myself For Marian’s letter was the of this reason I resolved to pay a visit a correspondence between beginning us the reto the Campagna near Rome and carry sult of which was that one day I packon my investigations in the most ma- ed up my traps and started for Egypt larial districts of this unhealthy spot a week after the Denzas had gone The cause of malaria was known and there I had made up my mind to its spread was all but proved but I winter also in Cairo The Denzas hoped that it might be my privilege and their Contiparty put up at the to discover the remedy nental hotel but I took rooms at I was deeply in love with a young For various reasons I Shepheard’s girl named Itachel Denza whom I had preferred not to be under the same known since she was a child Her fa- roof as Rachel But I had not been ther was an in the United six hours in Cairo before we met I States army Col Denza adored his went to the Continental and she inonly child and she lived only for her troduced me to her fiancee Capt father It was on the day before I Channlng Col Denza and Marian left New York for Italy that I ven- were present and the latter called to tured to speak openly of my love to see me at my hotel on the following Miss Denza To my astonishment and day “We need rage sho gently but firmly refused me not mince matters I controlled and hav- George” said she "I know you of myself however ing promised my old playmate that we old and I alone noticed your agitation should remain good friends when you met Rachel and the man always took my departure Outwardly I was she loves The wedding takes place in calm but Inwardly 'a tempest raged in three weeks You are content of If I had Intended Rachel course” my breast to bo mine before I asked her I was “It shall never take place” I annow liko a man possessed on the subswered fiercely “I have vowed and I ject The next day I sailed for Italy mean to keep my vow” The time of year was favorable for my “Well said 'George” she respondproject Romo being distinctly ma- ed “I too have good reason to comlarial in the month of August I be- plain if this marriage takes place A gan to make my investigations at once fortune comes to me If Channlng big My experiments from the start were fails to marry before the first of Janumore for possible cure of malaria than ary I do not care so very much for on the cause of its dissemination but that though something else influences in order to attain the one I had to in- me— it is my love for you You have vestigate the other It is now no se- vowed to marry one woman while ancret that the parasite which causes other woman has vowed to marry you malaria in the human subject is to We shall see how It all woFks out be found in the bodies of certain Meanwhile I am ready to help you all I let one of tfie The special mosquito mosquitoes I can” which disseminates this terrible disShe laughed and glided away withIt came nearer and passease has spotted wings and lays mosquito out waiting for a reply and I proceedme ed selected the sick man as it in ed to arrange the primary details of a For the mosquito by eggs a victim A moment later and my when It bites a man infect-tquestion plan which I had already outlined in with malaria conveys the disease to my mind beauty alighted on the The the next healthy person whom it bites mosquito small light as air almost Invalid’s hand He was about to brush it off but I interposed “One moment" Up to the present only the mosquito transparent scarcely visible to the I cried “this Is most curious Let me with spangled wings’ the anopheles naked eye carried within its tiny body is believed to be capable of conveying a weapon of death almost as certain secure this mosquito it is surely not this- diro infection from man to man as the assassin’s knife Before leav- one of the ordinary kind one finds but In all probability there are many ing the Campagna I had secured sev- here” As I spoke I laid my hapd lightly on otheis of tho species which can per- eral of these mosquitoes in a bottje the insect form equally deadly work It fluttered In Its unwelAs anThe bottle was provided with a breathcome prison I secured it and slyly opheles abounded on the portion of the ing apparatus In order to and keep Campagna where I had placed my pat- the insects alive I fed them on ba- slipped it back into the bottle The ent mosquito hut equipped with wffe nana but I knew to insure the trutn valid gazed at me In surprise doors I “The has windows had abunbitten me” he said and brute gauze of Manson’s theory I must give the dant opportunities of studying them mosquitoes a malarial victim to feed “It Is early In the year for mosquitoes Having taken tho necessary precauI find such a vic- In Cairo but I have been bitten beHow could upon tions and being in any case as I confore” tim? sidered to the bite of the “Indeed!" I answered with eagerimpervious I examined tny treasures and found I remained free from the them in good condition “Yes I see you have mosquito mosquito On the fol- ness dread disease I had been a month lowing morning I took a stroll through curtains round your bed” on the Campagna when one morning “The season has been so warm that the bazara of Cairo and I received a letter from Rachel In when leaving a booth noticed a man they have not died off as is their usual forming me that she was engaged to standing by the counter intent of habit” he replied “I think I shall go to bed doctor I feel a chill coming A spasm of minmarry a certain Capt Channlng for- making a purchase merly in her father’s regiment ' I gled delight and pity crossed my heart over me" wrote a formal note of congratulations He was a From that hour Frank Aldis was my object his face to Rachel and posted It Before the was so thin that the bones protruded patient and I visited him a couple of arrival of that letter I was practically under the sallow sickly skin He was times a day I had feij my mosquitoes a human scientist who loved his work a European perhaps an Englishman one by one from the veins of the maand wished to benefit his fellow men beyond all doubt he was' Buffering larious victim hut Lucifer and Diabolls Now every thought was concentrated from malignant malaria I recognized I still kept In a bottle by themselves— on one idea — how I could frustrate the symptoms of the dread disease at they were fully primed to do what misand make Rachel my wife As he left the bazar he grew chief lay in their power Christmas once Channlng Before I slept that night I took the suddenly weak staggered and would day arrived and two days afterward first stop have fallen had not I caught his arm the wedding was due to take place On I had a distant cousin by the name He spoke to me In English and I asChristmas night I knew that the She was a tall sisted him to a carriage outside He time had come to strike I sought of Marion Fletcher dark handsome girl over whom I had thanked me gratefully and bade the Marian Fletcher and told her I needed InfluJehu drive him to the Continental ho- her help to further our plans considerable exorcised always “I will help you on one condition” ence although I was not vain enough tel He was the very subject I needsho loved me It oc- ed as a tool to execute the deadly she said “You must marry me” to suppose I replied “You ask the Impossible” curred to mo that she would be a use- work I had In hand and that evening I “I want to remove a certain man from conversation was a had She with rate private ful tool at any visiting Marion my path because I love the girl who Is tho Denza s nl this time and I wrote with “There is a man in this hotel very engaged to him How can you expect lior a letter dealing principally ordinary mutters but toward the end ill” I dald “Do you happen to know me to marry you?” “This is a case of revenge" she anmentioned that I had heard of him?” to asked “You will prevent Channlng I her “Are you alluding to Mr Aldls?”'eke swered Rachel’s engagement from having the girl anyway’ asked tell mo all she could about Channlng “Listen Marian" I said softly "We and In n short while I received a reply "Perhaps so” I replied “I met him which ran us follows: today at the Silver bazar he is suf- will discuss the conditions afterwards If you fail to help me tonight It will he fering from malignant malaria” “My Dear George: It Is In my pow v to give yon much Information with “It is the same I suppose you too late”’ tat - “In any case I get the fortune" she mused softly “What am I to do toDr Matchem?" I took a glaaa bottle from my pocket "In this" I said "Is a mosquito room Is on the Captain Channlng's same corridor with the rest of your party Go upstairs some time thla evewhen no one la by enter the capning tain’s apartment open the curtaine of hla bed and let tbe Insects which rests In this bottle have Its freedom Inside the curtains When you are certain it la safe Inside tuck the curtaine down again and come away” I thrust the bottle into her hand Diabolls was and ripe to pursue his deadly work ! The next morning by Invitation I breakfasted at the Continental with the Denzas I observed Captain rub bis cheek and t saw the small but sure bite of a mosquito in the little red patch which Irritated him Rachel noticed her fiance’s action and remarked: “So you were the victim last night I was bitten the night before” “You refer to the mosquitoes” he said “It Is strange that they should be active at this time of the year A most persistent brute got Inside my curtains and worried me a lot but I finally managed to kill it” So Diabolls was dead! I smiled to myself Captain Channlng jumped up and he and Rachel went out together Marian and I were alone “When will the poison begin to work?” she asked “Probably this afternoon" “Is one dose sufficient?” “It would be safer to give a second Marian Can you help me to do It?” Will you let me have the "Certainly bottle which contains the Insect before night?” I nodded She stared at me steadily “You clearly understand what my collaboration in this matter means?" “You get the money” was my re- nit me that Captain Channing should die and Rachel live beautiful and free I think you call your favorite mosquitoes Diabolls and Lucifer Well Dlabolla poisoned Channlng on the night of the 25th Lucifer poisoned Rachel last night” “What do you mean?” I cried "Just what I say They are both ill now and It Is your doing and mine Cure them If you can” I was Incapable of speech and made no answer Turning away from Marian I went upstairs to where the Denzas’ room were located Rachel's door was slightly ajar and I heard voices within Her father was standing by tbe bed on which the girl lay She had not troubled to undress but from where I stood I noticed the frightful rigor which caused her to shiver violently The colonel saw me and asked me to enter “What ban you make of Rachel’s doctor?" he asked symptoms I went up to the bed and took hold of the girl’s small hot hand The pulse was galloping It did not need me to lay my finger 'upon it to know that her temperature was very high "You must get into bed Rachel” I said gently “You are more than I thought you were I will procure a nurse from the hospital to see after Tell me were you bitten by a you mosquito last night?” “Why yes" she responded “One got inside my curtain it bit my little finger and my wrist See how inflamed they are My head aches and I am very giddy” frightfully I motioned to the colonel and we both left the room “Your daughter Is Infected with the same malady from which Channing suffers” I paid hur“I will do all I can to cure riedly them but jou must follow my instructions implicitly I must have professional assistance so nurses must be Do not albrought from the hospital low Miss Fletcher near the patients ply we cannot risk amateur “And the man?” she queried bungling the As to the “We will speak of that later” I said cases are fay too serious ‘It must be postponed marriage My work could not be spoilt now you may thank heaven if I am able to save your daughter’s life” I rushed from the hotel I Was like a madman ’and yet I was not as guilty as when I awoke that morning It was given to me to repent at the eleventh hour I cared not if Rachel married the man she loved All I wanted to do was to save her life While studying the malaria question on the Campagna I had thought much of the blood I had made extensive experiments In this direction and gained great faith In a certain disinfectant which I called by the name of spirleen It was a mixture of more than one strong disinfectant and could be introduced by Inoculation into a healthy or infected subject at will Up to the present I had found no definite results but 1 belleyed in the potency of the cure and was determined fo" try to inoculate Rachel I went to my rooms shut myself In worked up my subject carefully and then returned to the Continental The manager met me in the hall “I trust this sickness is not going to assume tbe form of an epidemic doctor” he said anxiously “My guests are beginning to get frightened and several of them have left Mr Aldis is worse and Miss Fletcher one of the colonel’s party has already started for Alexandria en route for America” It was a relief at all events to know that Marian was out of the way I went to Aldis’ door and knocked A feeble voice responded and I entered The man was lying on his bed his face cadaverous the signs of approaching death were manifest If I saved him and surely in such a case any experiment was Justifiable free’ then Rachel at a much earlier stage of mosquitoes the complaint could be delivered I Rachel deprived of fortune and lover went straight up to the patient and must assuredly turn to me I must bent over him “I have something here that will soothe and satisfy Marian later on hut at any cost she must finish what either kill or cure you” I said “May she had begun Just then Rachel came I try it?” He nodded vaguely I doubt if he up to us looking pale and anxious “I am so glad you are here” she said really understood me I had my syr“Geoffrey is npt well he complains of inge ready and Inoculated him at once His symp- I then sat down and awaited results I shivering and headache toms are Just like those from which knew when his fever would begin to Mr Aldis suffers” return the temperature ought to rise I ran upstairs and saw Channlng He within an hour I sat and watched the had slight rigor which I knew would clock as a man who is drowning increase he had also sick headache watches to see whether the saving When the hour By evening he was very ill and it wTas rope will reach him clear that all thought of the morrow’s struck I took Aldis’ temperature It was normal there was no rise I took Marian ceremony must be abandoned had taken her place as nurse for Chan- it again in half an hour still no rise “An excellent sign" I said “Your nlng and I managed to slip the glass bottle into her hand Early the follow- attack Is not coming back” His eyes were a shade brighter and the patient ing morning I visited I him a stimulant I sat there gave Channing had got over the first attack and was lying on his bed weak and in- another hour still no rise of temperaColonel Denza asked me ture no sign of the recurrence of the different what I thought of the case terrible fever the man Already “It Is a clear case of malignant ma- looked better he was able to turn In laria” I replied “The fact is he his bed and watch me I gave him a second dose of the disinfectant and left ought not to marry for some time” I went straight to Rachel’s room “He must marry before the first or him She was in a paroxysm of extreme he loses a fortune!” exclaimed the The nurse who Denza colonel aghast “Tomorrow is the last misery had was seated by the bedside summoned day of grace” “I don’t believe he’ll be able to go Rachel was delirious she did iot know anyone through with It” I said “It Is a very sharp attack doctor” Just then Rachel passed going with feeble steps to her room I was struck said the nurse In French "It is” I answered I took the girl’s by her languid bearing and hastened white hand pushed up her sleeve and after her the spirleen “Are you ill Rachel?” I asked “Is introduced this disappointment more than you can My faith in my discovery was justiAs though by a miracle Rachel fied stand?” and “I last but not least Frank don’t Channing “It Is not that” she said the gates of I feel Aldis crept back from know what Is wrong with me just like Geoff did yesterday shivery death Step by step I watched them as health and strength returned to tired headachy” I told hej to go to her room and lie them They all spoke of me as their A vague fear savior and I dare not disillusionize down and she obeyed I went down- them There came a day when Chanclutched at my heart stairs and found Marian reading a mag- ning and Rachel drove to the church I crept back to and were married azine She rose when I approached hotel after I had been Shepheard’s “Dr Matcham” she said with sneerI was for ing emphasis “I asked you for a prom- present at the wedding I myself had been bitten by the deadise last night which you would not heeding little what they give So to make all safe I took mat- ly mosquitoes It does not did to me during those hours when I ters Into my own hands night fought for Rachel’s life Should I ad minister the spirleen and save my self? No It seemed useless The do sire for life bad left me and I welcomed the penance which I was doomed to undergo I resolved to return to New York while I was yet able to travel and die at home I have written the formula for making the spirleen on a separate sheet of paper enclosed with this manuscript Test It Halifax when I am gone It will work wonders in your hands Thus ended Matcham’s confession of hia crime and repentance Regarding I used the spirleen with discovery good effect in several cases and there Is no doubt that however the dead man may have erred he was a benefactor of suffering mankind Factory Owns Itself Richard and Florence Cross Kltchelt describe very interestingly in the April World’s Work tbe experiment of a young professor named Ernst Abbe of a which resulted in tbe perfecting scheme tor the Carl Zeiss Glassworks in Jena Germany This a scientist and an Inyoung man ventor had been taken into partnership by Carl Zeiss and on the death of the founder he acquired sole posTwo years later session of the works he created the Carl Zeiss Stlftung To this foundation he transferred the ownership of the business and a share In the affiliated controlling That Is he transferred glassworks tbe ownership of the Zeiss works to itself All workmen are guaranteed a definite weekly wage which is tbe minimum they may receive But all work Is done on a piece basis and the weekly income is supposed to be in excess of the minimum wage In addition to this at the end of each year a part of the surplus is rflso distributed This during the last fourteen years has averaged eight' per cent of the wages Russian Ice Breaker The breaking of ice in tbe harbors Russian seaports has always been a serious problem According to newspaper reports tbe Russian government bas accepted a new 1800 ton ice breaker Peter the Great which will ass’st vessels through the perilous Gulf of Riga This harbot has heretofore been dependent on the ice breaker Yermak of Reval The' new vessel was built at Gothenburg Its length over all is 1805 feet its greatest breadth 508 feet and its dratt twenty-onfeet Most of the ship’s hold is taken up with the machinery which includes main engines of 2400 horse power and a 1200 horse power Tho engine for the forward propeller vessel has a rounded bottom and considerable flare to its sides The two for the pumps side filling centrifugal tahks of the ship can be used for salvage operations by means of deck of couplings The ship is lighted by elec- and equipped with a searchlight The engines under forced draft indicated 3025 horse power on the vessel’s trial trip and gave a speed of 14V6 knots The total cost of the vessel was 1010000 marks ($240380) tricity Unknown Gives Gold to thg Blind An extraordinary gift of sold to a blind man tty an anonymous donor took place recently in the Potteries says the London Mail A blind man of Kent ptreet Hanley who Is regularly to be seen In the principal thoroughfares playirg a portwas standing in Lamb able organ street Hanley when a gentleman who is unknown to him piessed a small parcel Into his hand and asked him to put It Into his pocket The man did so and half an hour later the gentleman returned and asked him If he had opened the parcel He replied In the negative and his unknown benefactor then Informed hlia that tbe parcel contained money the rehis cipient then asked the gentleman name but the donor had disappeared When the blind man reached bis home he found to his great amazement that the parcel contained $100 in gold This is the second gift of gold within a few weeks to blind men in t le Potteries In the first case an unknown donor dropped ten sovereigns In the blind man’s can Cause For Not Refusing The Countess Howe had always and very strict religious scruples never accepted any Invitation on Sunday but always devoted that day to On one occasion her serious duties at Windsor when Bhe was in attendance on the queen some party was proposed by the king for Sunday at which he was anxious that she should be present But the countess could not be induced to deviate from her fixed plans of seclusion on that w w was ho a itness of the queen was surprised at the clscussion firmness and could not help saying afterwards to her: “I wonder at your resolution I am sure if the king had been so urgent with me I could not have refused' “Madam” replied Lady Howe "hia majesty is your husband” Her Exact Words this? You Housekeeper — How’s promised to saw some wood if I gave a lunch you — I recall no auch Tramp promise madam “The Idea! I told you I’d give you a lunch if you’d saw some W’ood and you agreed” madam Your exact “Pardon me words were: Til give you a lunch if you saw that wood over there by the gate ” That’s Just what I said” “Exactly “Well madam I saw that wood over there by the gate as I came in” ' |