At the same time, I have facilitated the future administration of the antidote by adding a label to the bottle, stating the exact quantity of the poison taken by my servant, as calculated by myself.
"I ought, by the way, to have mentioned in the cipher that experience has shown me the necessity, if the antidote is to be preserved for any length of time, of protecting it in blue glass from the influence of light.
"Let me also tell you that I found a vegetable diet of use in perfecting the effect of the treatment.

That mean dread of discovery, which I have already acknowledged, induced me to avail myself of my wife's help in nursing the man.

When he began to talk of what had happened to him, I could trust Madame Fontaine to keep the secret.

When he was well enough to get up, the poor harmless creature disappeared.

He was probably terrified at the prospect of entering the laboratory again.