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Against the wall to the left were cabinets with sliding doors, showing retorts, apparatus, bottles of drugs, jars of specie, coloured ainst the right hand ere sinks, an incubator and, beyond, a door leading into a drug closet There was the usual laboratory s fume of alcohol, the sency of oil of clove and the aroled for the own Helen looked more like herself than the day before and less so, the faainst the flowing black her loveliness shone fair and delicate as a caht of the Princess Ida, Liker to the inhabitant Of some far planet close upon the sun Than our race and power-- Lived through her to the tips of her long hands And to her feet

She had not noticed my entrance, but as I stepped forward, she turned, and I was again lost in wonder at her race Her beauty seeht of it was a joy approaching pain

I had not beenin huhtened anew at her perfection

"Why, how did you find your way out here?" she asked with girlish directness "I'o; I must finish uessed his identity--joined us, glancing at ure seemed restless as a squirrel's, but around the pupils of his eyes appeared the faint, white rie

"You are friendt of Mees Veensheep?" he asked "Looks she not vell? New York has agreed vit' her; not so?"

Atof the sae Baker had voiced at my moderation flitted over the old man's face

"I find you kvite right; kvite right," he said, "New York has done Mees Veensheep goot; she looks fery vell"

He whisked into the drug closet, and Helen seated herself before a microscope next that of the fur-capped woet another microscope and while I draw you s are only telycerine Here is the sweetest longitudinal section of the tentacle of an Actinia, and here--look at these lovely transverse sections of the pluroups of spiral vessels They've taken the carmine stain wonderfully! But my work is not advanced; I wish you could see that of the other girls"