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At one end of the table, poised upon the back of a chair, sat a small Capucin monkey of the Weeper or Sai species He watched the man with that sober, judicial air which is by no means confined exclusively to supreme benches I, too, observed the man carefully He was tall and spare He ht and could not, I think, have weighed over one hundred and fifty pounds His face was pinched and careworn, but this effect wasa depth and penetration I have never seen equalled, albeit there was, ever and anon, a suggestion of wildness which somewhat marred their deep, contee of the head at once bespoke the scholar While thus I watched hiirl came from a corner of the room I could not overlook and laid my letter before hi his hair caressingly and, every now and then, kissing hiently He paused with the open letter before him, reached up both arhed, and picked up the letter again I took pains that no act, word, or look should escape me This show of affection surprised h s we all are! Here is a man apparently capable of a causeless and cold-blooded assassination of a harmless old man You would say such a murderer must be hopelessly selfish and brutal, amenable to none of the better sentilance to see how his whole life is bound up in the young girl before hilanced through my letter and thrown it upon the table with an exclaust "Bah! he has had the effrontery," he said petulantly, "to send me what he calls a new mode of treatment and it is in every essential that of Broadbent, well known for more than a quarter of a century New indeed! I shall never find a doctor who has any scientific acumen I may as well abandon the search now Mon Dieu! and they call medicine a science! Bah!" and with a frown he dropped his head despondently upon his hand The young girl passed her hand gently, soothingly, over his forehead and did not speak for nearly a ht, father," she said at length "M Godin has been here during my absence"