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"Yes, I have," he said sulkily. There came a hitch of the fat foot, a heavy scuffling sound, heavy panting, and then, skittering out across the floor came a flat, sealed parcel.
"There you are," he said; "now, let me alone until that fiend has gone home."
"He won't attack you again," I said. "Come out."
But Professor Boomly flatly declined to stir.
I looked at the parcel: it was marked: "Bimba leaves; Joh.o.r.e."
With a sigh of unutterable relief, I picked up the ravenous little caterpillar, placed him on the packet, and turned to go. And didn't.
It is a very sickening fact I have now to record. But to a scientist all facts are sacred, sickening or otherwise.
For what I caught a glimpse of, just outside the door in the hallway, was Jones kissing Mildred Case. And being shyly indemnified for his trouble with a gentle return in kind. Both his arms were around her waist; both her hands rested upon his shoulders; and, as I looked--but let it pa.s.s!--let it pa.s.s.
Deliberately I fished in my pocket, found my packet of cigarettes, lighted one.
_Tobacco diffugiunt mordaces curae et laetificat cor hominis!_
