But Cumberledge is dead...

I must be delirious....

If I didn't KNOW to the contrary, I could have sworn it was Cumberledge's!" I spoke again, bending over him.

"How long have the glandular swellings been present, Professor ?" I asked, with quiet deliberativeness.
This time he opened his eyes sharply, and looked up in my face.

He swallowed a great gulp of surprise.