24/26 "My cousin cannot forget your kindness to the monkey." "The sooner she forgets my kindness the better. The monkey is dead." "I am glad to hear it." "Why ?" "I thought the creature was living in pain." "What do you mean ?" "I mean that I heard a moaning--" "Where ?" "In the building behind your house." "You heard the wind in the trees." "Nothing of the sort. Are your chemical experiments ever made on animals ?" The doctor parried that direct attack, without giving ground by so much as a hair's breadth. Now I have something more to tell you. I am like my friend." He waited a little. |