I had got what he said were the last objects of his search; and I felt assured that he would now be able to begin the experiment of which he had often hinted to me.

It is too dreadful that at just such a time such a calamity should have fallen on him.

Doctor Winchester, you are a physician; and, if your face does not belie you, you are a clever and a bold one.

Is there no way which you can devise to wake this man from his unnatural stupor ?" There was a pause; then the answer came slowly and deliberately: "There is no ordinary remedy that I know of.

There might possibly be some extraordinary one.