The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 60: what you’re looking at

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THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. CHAPTER VIL. SUCCESS AND FAILURE. o1 Thus speaking, I bend down and from a corner of the smoker take a common grape basket, such as is sold in New York with some ten pounds of the fruit. It has a wooden cover to it, tied with a string, and in this cover are a number of. holes, roughly made with a knife, as if to let air in to the - captive. I untie the cord aya raise the lid. “Took here, sir.” “Ah! a Maltese cat, half grown. Where did you get it, sir?” he asks. “Some one gave it to the porter, and he is taking it to his Chicago girl. Now I propose that, while I hold this cat’s mouth open you allow a small portion _of that liquid to pass down its throat. Then we will tie the lid again and await developments. liquid is harmless the cat will neers, but if what I 4 believe is true——’ If the I end the sentence with a shrug, aad seizing the feline in a way to avoid resistance, open its mouth. Robert Hammond hesitates. “Do what you promised, man,” I exclaim. My words seem to nerve him to the effort, for he suddenly empties about a third of the liquid down* sneezes, shakes its head and looks surprised. the red throat. Then I release the cat. The animal ~ It offers no resistance while I replace it once more in (alo) m 900 (G cS (aro)