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The quiet conviction of her tone left me for a while speechless with horror and despair Then I recalled Thorndyke's calm, even confident attitude, and I hastened to remind her of it

"There is one of your friends," I said, "who is still undismayed Thorndyke seems to anticipate no difficulties"

"And yet," she replied, "he is ready to consider a forlorn hope like this However, we shall see"

I could think of nothing loomy silence that we pursued our way down Inner Tees that brought us out, at length, by the Treasury

"I don't see any light in Thorndyke's cha's Bench Walk; and I pointed out the ros all dark and blank

"No: and yet the shutters are not closed Hean appointment with you and your father It is most e, by a slip of paper fixed by a tack on the iron-bound "oak"

"A note for PB is on the table," was the laconicthe heavy door outward, and opened the lighter inner door The note was lying on the table and I brought it out to the landing to read by the light of the staircase laht change of prograet my experiments over before the Director returns, so as to save discussion He has asked ha at once The hall porters are instructed to ad you to us I think some matters of importance may transpire at the interview--JET"

"I hope you don't etically, when I had read the note to Ruth

"Of course I don't," she replied "I am rather pleased We have so many associations with the dear old Museue and touching wistfulness and then turned to descend the stone stairs

At the Te ard and north to the soft tinkle of the horse's bell

"What are these experiments that Doctor Thorndyke refers to?" she asked presently

"I can only answer you rather vaguely," I replied "Their object, I believe, is to ascertain whether the penetrability of organic substances by the X-rays becoe; whether, for instance, an ancient block of wood is more or less transparent to the rays than a new block of the same size"