Ambrotox and Limping Dick

ather and Sir Randal

he laziest," she said,

are, my dear," r

car from Iddingfiel

y three distinct w

d Amaryllis, with he

ther. "He would have a nois

" he said, as he sat down. "How d'you like my hooter? S

lis la

it," s

from the letter

is brother as he handed the letter across the table to Caldegard. "That'll take a lot of answering, a

o amuse me, Miss Cal

faintest idea

e try m

o-if you can do

Randal went to his brother's room,

e said. "I ask you to amuse a

," sai

for eight hours. W

Oxford, and tea at Chesham," said Dick, brushing his hair care

his brother. And t

ft the table, Dick

u going?" ask

th Mrs. Rogers," sai

he study, Caldegard," said Randal. "I think it's t

e them together, but h

't you, my dear? You're o

ed, looking at him w

ame you invented, Amaryllis, are in this house. Sir Randal knows its properties. I know all about it. You know that I have spent two years in reaching it, and

nd led the way across the hall and down the

ryllis and her father were gazing from the open french-window across the moonli

e dam fine lot coff

ghed to see only Dick,

begin?" he asked, turn

ere where you can see right down the passage. Miss Caldegar

rrace, and the dog followed her.

ins across the window. "Keep your eye on the end of the pass

priesthood, is my old friend Caldegard. Some little time ago he penetrated too far into the arcana of his cult; and on one of the branches of that terrific tree he found and coaxed

ffs at a fresh cigar, Caldegard

him?" he asked,

nd you for yo

l act less equally, need larger doses, tempt more rapidly to increase of dose, and, where the patient knows what drug he has taken, lead, in a certain proportion of cases, very quickly to an ineradicable habit. In wis

he pure joy of being alive-which the abuser of Ambrotox experiences in his whole daily life, is incommunicable. It is a period of bliss, of clear head, good impulses, celestial dreams, and steady hope. These effects last, on an even dose, longer than with any other drug of which I have experience. And then there begins and grows a desire for action, the devil preaching that no good wo

o much about the e

le subject for experiment-

hair, and drew in her breath s

sk to take,

y memory of the horrors I went through in curing myself after a course of hashish, gave me faith in my po

he mark?" i

ldegard, "of certain cardiac

ust have been the time when you sent fo

gard

ent on Amaryllis indignantly, "

er father, smiling at her, "wa

ngly the remembrance of that incommunicable bliss cries out for an epi

sometimes," he said. "Let her call. It's all part of th

and for a moment the others waite

ghtful temptation than opium or cocaine, just for the sake of giving a few sick people a more comfortable medicine than they'v

was going to

sion of cocaine and other poisons, did little to diminish the illicit traffic. Such contrabrand dealing is immensely lucrative, and prices rise in direct ratio with the danger. But the new Bill may contain a clause vesting in the State the formul? and the manufacture of all newly-discovered drugs of this kind. The Government is relying in this matter greatly upon the experience and advice of Sir Randal, and if a sufficiently stringent clause can be devised, it is probable tha

e was a pictur

s; and once, just before I went to Scotland, they both came together. I remember how dreadfully ill they looked. But wh

ut 'em?"

he torture of the damned; each confessed to me her vice, and the dreadful failure of her struggle to overcome it. Experimentally I treated each with Ambrotox, in gradual

ryllis. "I always thought yo

aldegard. "But I am convinced that I have found a means o

gain by telling

a good conscience to thousands of sufferers in this nerve-racked world.' Every chemist in the country that knows my line of work will be searching in a furious effort to forestall the new legislation by discovering and putting on the market new synthetic opiates. There is not, perhaps, much fear that chance shooting will achieve the actual bull's-e

lives of many hirelings would be a small price to pay for the half-

Dick, "you might have told too much. Knowin

he room, so heavy that i

," said Di