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The Black Box

CHAPTER IX
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Poor old chap, I'm afraid he'll never be the same man again." "He must miss Craig terribly," Lenora observed, as they took their places in the automobile, "and yet, Mr.Quest, it does seem to me a most amazing thing that a man so utterly callous and cruel as Craig must be, should have been a devoted and faithful servant to anyone through all these years." Quest nodded.
"I am beginning to frame a theory about that.

You see, all the time Craig has lived with the Professor, he has been a sort of dabbler with him in his studies.

Where the Professor's gone right into a thing and understood it, Craig, you see, hasn't managed to get past the first crust.

His brain wasn't educated enough for the subjects into the consideration of which the Professor may have led him.

See what I'm driving at ?" "You mean that he may have been mad ?" Lenora suggested.
"Something of that sort," Quest assented.


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