. The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers. n scandalous stories wliich had prejudiced the gentryof the town against her. It is a circumstance worth mention-ing that each of these three old gentlemen — Mr. Medbourne,Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne — were early lovers ofthe widow Wycherly, and had once been on the point of cut-ting each others throats for her sake. And before proceedingfarther I will merely hint that Dr. Heideg
. The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers. n scandalous stories wliich had prejudiced the gentryof the town against her. It is a circumstance worth mention-ing that each of these three old gentlemen — Mr. Medbourne,Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne — were early lovers ofthe widow Wycherly, and had once been on the point of cut-ting each others throats for her sake. And before proceedingfarther I will merely hint that Dr. Heidegger and all his fourguests were sometimes thought to be a little beside themselves,as is not infrequently the case with old people when worriedeither by present troubles or woeful recollections. My dear old friends, said Dr. Heidegger, motioning themto be seated, I am desirous of your assistance in one of thoselittle experiments with which I amuse myself here in mystudy. If all stories were true, Dr. Heideggers study must havebeen a very curious place. It was a dim, old-fashioned cham-ber festooned with cobwebs and besprinkled with antiquedust. Around the walls stood several oaken bookcases, the w. a t. s bN s, hri h*H o l*^ •PJ o HO C a s tf S I.^. DR. HEIDEGGERS EXPERIMENT. 7933 lower shelves of which were filled with rows of gigantic foliosand black-letter quartos, and the upper with little parchment-covered duodecimos. Over the central bookcase was a bronzebust of Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities,Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations in alldifficult cases of his practice. In the obscurest corner of theroom stood a tall and narrow oaken closet with its door ajar,within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton. Between two ofthe bookcases hung a looking-glass, presenting its high anddusty plate within a tarnished gilt frame. Among many won-derful stories related of this mirror, it was fabled that thespirits of all the doctors decea
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