effects of glandular transplantation and rejuvenation in animals and men

alike; brochures on attempted brain transference, and a host of other

fanatical speculations not countenanced by orthodox physicians. It

appeared, too, that Andrews was an authority on obscure medicaments; some

of the few books I waded through revealing that he had spent much time in

chemistry and in the search for new drugs which might be used as aids in

surgery. Looking back at those studies now, I find them hellishly

suggestive when associated with his later experiments.

Andrews was gone longer than I expected, returning early in November,

almost four months later; and when he did arrive, I was quite anxious to

see him, since my condition was at last on the brink of becoming

noticeable. I had reached a point where I must seek absolute privacy to

keep from being discovered. But my anxiety was slight as compared with his

exuberance over a certain new plan he had hatched while in the Indies - a

plan to be carried out with the aid of a curious drug he had learned of

from a native "doctor" in Haiti. When he explained that his idea concerned

me, I became somewhat alarmed; though in my position there could be little

to make my plight worse. I had, indeed, considered more than once the

oblivion that would come with a revolver or a plunge from the roof to the

jagged rocks below.

On the day after his arrival, in the seclusion of the dimly lit study, he

outlined the whole grisly scheme. He had found in Haiti a drug, the