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He then told me how he had made a study of Miss Darrow's movements, and had met her many ti in her un to wonder if his frequent appearance were not soht think hian as sedulously to avoid the places he knew she frequented, as he previously had sought them This, he confessed, made him utterly miserable He had, to be sure, never spoken to her, but it was everything to be able to see her When he could endure it no longer he had coht, when he had et me to introduce him to the Darrows

You will understand, of course, that I did not learn all this at our first interview Maitland did not take me into his confidence until we had had a conference at his laboratory devoted entirely to scientific speculations On this occasion he surprised : "Sorandest sacrifices the world has ever known, if one e by the fortitude they require, and the pain they cause, have occurred in the laboratory" I looked at hireat love of truth that is in hiiven his life to the solution of some problem, and has at last arrived, after years of closest application, at soeneralisation--when he has, perhaps, published his conclusions, and received the grateful hoe of all lovers of truth, his life has, indeed, borne fruit Of him may it then be justly said that his "'life hath blossomed doard like The purple bell-flower'

But suddenly, in the privacy of his laboratory, a single fact arises fro hand and confronts hilass torment falls upon the floor, and shatters into countless pieces, but he is not conscious of it, for he feels it thrust through his heart When he recovers from the first shock, he can only ejaculate: 'Is it possible?' After a little he is able to reason 'I was fatigued,' he says; 'perhaps ain, and be sure But if it overthrow those conclusions for which I have given eneralisation is firmly established in the minds of all--all but myself--no one will ever chance upon this particular experiment, and it may not disprove my theory after all; better, much better, that the floor there keep the secret of it all both from me and from others!'