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He laughed, and his eyes looked very friendly

"Mades who cannot bear to see any innocent thing suffer It matters not whether it be a worm in the dust, a butterfly in the air, a bird, a flower, or a human creature The first time I saw you I knew that your state of health precluded you froe I also perceived that the physicians had been at work upon you trying to probe into the causes of your ailnally failed Physicians, mademoiselle, are very clever and estis which come within the lis which baffle their ute One of these is that wondrous piece of human machinery, the nervous system; that intricate and delicate network of fine threads--electric wires on which run the ht, impulse, affection, emotion If these threads or wires becoled, the skill of the mere medical practitioner is of no avail to undo the injurious knot, or to unravel the confused skein The drugs generally used in such cases are, for the most part, repellent to the huerous, and often deadly I knew, by studying your face,as acutely as I, too, suffered soetable essence,by it The experiment has been so far successful; but----"

He paused, and his face becaerly

"I was about to say," he continued, "that the effect is only transitory Within forty-eight hours you must naturally relapse into your former prostrate condition, and I, unfortunately, a of disappointain be the victiive me another dose of your remedy," I said

"That I cannot, retfully; "I dare not, without further advice and guidance"

"Advice and guidance from who and almost hopeless illness," said Cellini "He alone can tellyour nature and constitution"