This curious place was furnished
with a conglomeration of appliances
for the Investigation of mental and even
spiritual phenomenon. Here were the
most modern creations of Inquisitive
scientists for the recording, on deli
cately koen psychological Instruments,
of human emotions?of love, hate, fear
of all those subtle radiations emitted
by the nerves.
Here were mechanisms capable in
their delicate accuracy of photograph
ing even the thousand shades of mental
stimuli.
Dr. Alden glanced hurriedly about the
laboratory.
"Ah, that's good?nothing disturbed,**
he muttered, in relief. Then a vestige
of alarm crossed his face as he discern
ed a slightly opened drawer In the fil
,ng cabinet In which It was his custom
m methodically record all the details of
his investigations.
The doctor was a preciso man, after
,rars of scientific training, lie remem
bered distinctly having closed all these
drawers the night before on leaving his
u orkshop.
Nervously ho opened this one now,
io finger each neatly labeled envelope
in order. All were intact until he came
to one marked '"Mason Case."
It was empty!
His valuable memoranda had been
stolen since his last addenda to this
haffllng subject, recorded the night bo
fore.
"That's their game, eh?" His brows
contracted. "Well, they know my
*?ame! I have been ridiculed for my
1 li^votlon to this work, yet hero is the
? triumphant proof that I havA been fol
lowing the right trail in the darkness
of theory. . . . They cannot terrify
me, for, by heavens'. I will fleht them
with their own weapons from be
hind the emhat tletnent s of legitimate
soicnce."
There was determination In the forca
m i? h which he shoved the drawer Into
place again.
