He gulped down the brandy, and gasped, "I feel better now.

Help me to my chair." Assisting him to his feet, she supported him to his arm-chair, when he shook himself free, crying angrily, "Let me alone! Don't you see I am all right again ?" The girl stood aside, and the Professor dropped into his chair, his nervous hands vibrating on his knees.

For a long interval nothing was said by either, and the girl at last seated herself on the bench she had formerly occupied.

The next words the old man spoke were, "Who sent you here ?" "No one, I came of my own accord.

I wished to meet someone who had a large knowledge of explosives, and Herr Feltz, the chemist, gave me your address." "Herr Feltz! Herr Feltz!" he repeated.