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WILLIAM LE QUEUX,
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CHAPTER XVIII
THE MYSTERY OF THE MORNING ROOM. My oyes wandered from the face of the trembling woman before me to the blanched countenance of my love. In an instaat. I de tected a change there. While I had boon speak ing the muscles had relaxed until that face I adored had become blank and quite expression less. No deep medical knowledge was necessary to detect the awful trath, It was the exact counterpart of the photograph which had been in the colonel's possession..
With a ory of despair I sunk upon my knees, touching hor sheeks and chafing her hands. I held the mirror against her mouth. But the jar had dropped, and when I looked eagerly for signs of aspiration there were none, Beryl, ay mysterious unknown wife, was dead!".
I pressed her hand, I called her by name, and aided by her cousin Nora frantically tried the various modes of artifadal respiration. Bat all in vain. Her frall life had dickered out cron while we had boon fencing with each other All was neglers. She had, un the major had predicted during that memorable interview at Whitton, been struck down swiftly and secretly in some manner that was impossible to dotar-
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“She's dend!" I cried, still holding her thin, cold hand, and tarning to the woman who had brought me to her eide. "Dead-dead!"
"Impossible " she gasped. "No, don't tell me that. Do your best to save her, Doctor. You must save hor-you must!"
But she is beyond human aid!" I declared. Rospiration has ceased. The last spark of lite has gone out. She has been murdered!"
By that woman in black!" she shricked. "But how
"That I do not know," I responded very gravely. There is no wound; nothing what erer to account for death."
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open and examine the contents of each very " Hoefer. Come here quickly. There's some slowl
You have inquired.
I took it from my pocket caso, and handed it to him. He grunted, and made a disparaging remark about the make German needes were so much better in declared DAN
thing devilish uncanny in this. I've never felt a hypodermio syringe he like this bolore.com
SELON L The old German dashed out of the room, and
was to an instant beside me.
How do you fools" ha inquirad.
I heard his voice, but it sounded like that of someone speaking in the far distance. The Then having cleaned the syringe, he mixed a shock was just as though an loy hand had struck solution with the atmest care, and then adminisme as I had energed from the hall. I was cold from head to foot, shivering violently, while my tered a sub-cntanees injection in Beryl's arin
lower limbs became so benumbed that I could not feel my feet.
I saw by his face that the absence of any mark sorely puzzled him, just as it had bo- wildered me. To all appearancen my loro was dend. Indeed I, as a medical man, would have given a certificate of death. Yat the queer gruff old fallow was now striving to bring her back to life to give her back to me.
I prayed to God that he might encceed. He drew a chair and sat beside the cold in animate form, eagerly watching the effects of the drag he had administered. From time to time he grunted in dissatisfaction, and I could see that he was extremely dabions regarding the rusalt, I wondered of what the injection was composest, for the drugs on mingling turned pale blue, yet so intent was he in watching that I dare not disturb him
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I must have reeled, for Hoofer in alarm caught me in his rois and steadied me.
Tell me what are your symptoms 2" "I'm cold," I answered, my voice trembling, and my teeth chattering violently..
Ho seized my wrist, and his great fingers closed upon it.
Ach he cried in genuine alarm. Your pulse is failing. And your eyes!" he added, looking into them. You are cold-your legs: are rigid-you have the same symptoms, exactly the same, as the young lady!"
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And you I gasped, "Do you feel noth- ing
Nothing yet." he responded. "Nothing." But what is it?" I cried in desperation.
Her ladyship stood near, her dark by the white agitated countenance fixed im-The fooling is truly as though the Angel of movably upon us..
Hoofer glanced at his cheap metal watch, and granting crossed to the table and mixed second injection, grumbling all the time at the inferior quality of my hypodermic syringe. So rough, unpolished in manner and unsparing in criticism was he that her ladyship low back from him to fear,
The second infection proved of as little trail as the first, and from the great man's grave expression I began to fear the worst. No sign of life asserted itself. To all appearance my adored had passed away.
Suddenly lie rose, and turning to her lady thip, said in broken English-
New, medam, you will tell me, please, how! this occurred."
"I do not know. Doctor Colkirk has told you all I know about it."
But just as Dester Hocfor entered you were about something mystorieus that had telling happened here. What was that?"
She pursed her hips for a moment, and glanced quickly at the old Gorman
Death had passed and struck ino down." Can- not you give me something. Hoefer? Give me The woman near me stood rooted to the spot something-before I lose all consciousers !" in absolute terror while the old German placed me upon an oaken settle in the hall, and van along to the boudoir, returning with the syringe filled with the same injection which ho had ad- ministered to my love. This he gave me in the arm, then stood by breathlessly anxioné as to the result.
The feelings I experienced during the teu mimites that followed are indescribable. I ca only compare them to the oxcruciating agony of being slowly frozen to death.
Through it all I saw Hoofor's proat fleshy face with the big spectacles peoring into mizo. I tried to speak, but could not. I tried to raise my hand to make signs, but my muscles had suddenly become paralysed. Truly the mystery of that room was an uncanny one.
It ran through my mind that the hours being lit by electric light, the wires were perhaps not properly insulated, and any person leaving the shock. This theory was, however, symptoms, which were not in any way similar to those consequent ca electric shock.
Oh!" she cried, in desperation. "I ought out is a most serious thing; I can't make it placo received aeratived by my
to have told you everything at once, but I feared you would not believe it if I told you. A strange thing has occurred in this house, some thing very uncanny, It is us though the place is overshadowed by some ovil influenss.”
room.”
There is some mystery in the morning "Ach!" excisimed Hoofer, with a grunt. mystory! The symptoms of this lady aro in themselves mysterions. Please explain the mystery of the room."
Woll," she auswered, when I entered "I don't understand you." I auswered quick- ly interested, but oro the words had left my after the departure of the visitor and discover meath there was n tag at the door, and the od my cousin lying on the floor unconscious, I was quite well; but when I left I experienc- servant ushered in my old friend and lectured most curious sensation, just as though Carl Hosforan e
"Ah! my dear Doctor!" I cried eagerly all my limbs were benumbed. I, too, almost rashing forward to welcome him. You will lost consciousness while in the cab in rearch But the most curious erouse me calling you so unexpectedly, and at of Doctor Colkirk. this hour, it something very unusual has part of the affair is that my maid and the your housemaid, who rushed in when I raised the transpired matter in which I
which I require your alarm, experienced the very same sensation. Assistance
"Ach!" he answered, shaking my hand, I It was as though we were struck by an icy was surprised to get your kart, my frient But hand-the Hand of Death."
There is certainly something vory uncanny you see I had come to you at once,"
stout, ill-dressed man, broad-about that," I observed, puzzled. He was
*To me it seems as though poor Beryl was shouldered, short-legged, big-headed, heavy jowled, about Afty-five, with noraggy yellowish struck down in the same way as myself." hair upon his furrowed face, a pair of big eyes," But you say that you felt nothing on enter which blinked through large gold-rimmed ing. Only when leaving ?" inquired Hoefer, spectacles, and a limp shirt front secured by a his eyes seeming to grow larger behind his couple of common pearl studs. Typically great glasses.
German in figuro and manner, he spoke with a" Only when leaving," she assured him,
"Strange?" he ejaculated. "Let's see the strong accent, his English grammar being often very faulty, but he was nevertheless a burly room We may perhaps obtain a clue to this good-natured man, possessing a keen sense of mysterious ailment from which your cousin is
suffering humour,
I introduced him briefly to the baroner's wife and then, indiesting the inanimate body of muut she is not dead!" I asked in doubt. love, gave him a short technical account of her symptoms
He bent over her grunted dutinaaly
No," he responded. The list injection must be given time to take effect. We can only hope for the beat.”
her, examined her lace and
It looks as though the young lady were dead, he said with his strong accent, his great sleepy-looking eyes blinking at as throw his spectacles.
4T see no sign of life," I responded. "What porn opinion He went down on his fees, grunting over the effort, and while I held the lamp for hira, examined her throat and neck carefully, as though looking for some mark or other tad And how did it all, Kappen be inquired presently, after a long thoughtful silence.
I exchanged glances with her ladyship, and then related him the story, just as she had told it to me,
Her larship shes that it should be kept a profound soaret, 1
Secret! he shorted. "How are you going to hoodwink the Coroner
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Then you thok poor Beryl is really dead?" hor consin zasped follow answered grally
She is dead the
but can you do nothing?" I urged in des peration You are the only man in all the world who can investigate such a case may who can bring her back to life.
"If she dead, that's impossible," he de- our estimats of my power is far too clared.Tour great, Doctor" he added, deprecatingly
No," I said. "I remes to believe that she is actually beyond your sid. To us she may appear dead, but her state may be only a cata leptic ona
Bat the electric battery?" I suggested. Could we not try that ?
"Uselosa, my dear friend," he responded, It would kill her. Let us see the room of mystery B
The haronet's wife conducted us along the holl to the further end, where she opened the door, herself drawing back,
"What?" I Inquirod, Yon fear to enter "Yes," she faltered. I will remain here.".
Very well. We will go in. Ilanghed for the idea seemed so absurd that both Hoefer and myself put it down to her excited imaging Hon. What ill effet could the mere untry into Broom have upon the human system providing there were no foal gas? Therefore, we both went forward, sailing suspiciously, and, walk- ing to the window, opened it widely,
The half-dozen lights in the slectrolier illu. mined the place brightly, revealing a fine hand- Rome room furnished with taste and comfort. On looking round we certainly saw nothing to account for the extraordinary phenomona: os
described by the trembling woman who stood upon the mat outside,
Hoefer looked anxionaly at his watch; then, after a ispse of a few minntas, gave me a second injection, which rendered me a trifle easier. I could clatest by his manner and his grunts that he was utterly confounded. He, who had sneered at the weird story, like ayself, was now con- vinced that some strange, unaccountable mystery was connected with that room.
To enter apparently produced no ill effect, But to leave brought swiftly and surely upon the fated intruder the icy touch of death."
I had langhed the thing to scorn, yet within few seconds had myself fallen a victima.
Bome 'deep, inseratable mystery was there,
(To be continued. but what it was neither of us could tell.
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While we unde a careful examination of the place in which my love had met her strange rialtor the door, creaking horribly, swang slow- ly to, as doors often will when badly hang. Hoefer examined the floor carefully, seeking to discover whether the unknown woman in black.
had dropper wills I sweched the chairs for the anything that might give a cide to her identity, w same purpose,Ve, however, found nothing. CONTRA What I wondered, was the nature of the in- He shook his great shaggy head dubiously tergiow that had taken place there a couple of but made no response. The man, one of the hours before? Who was the woman who had greatest chemists of the age, who had been called and represented herself as Beryl's dress- recognised as privat decent" of pathological maker? Conid it have been the woman whosə anatomy and bacteriology at the University of vengeance was so feared, the woman whose very Napins, and whs renowned throughout the world name had been uttered by that miscreant with for his excursions into the queer by-ways of bated breath-La Gioia medicine, was a man of few words,
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