if the rooms are agreeable to you."
"When shall we see them?"
"Call for me here at noon to-morrow, and we'll go together
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"By the way," I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon
Afghanistan?"
My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. "That's just his
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"Oh! a mystery is it?" I cried, rubbing my hands.
us together. `The proper study of mankind is man,' you know."
"You must study him, then," Stamford said, as he bade me good-bye.
more about you than you about him. Good-bye."
"Good-bye," I answered, and strolled on to my hotel,
WE met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms
meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms
and illuminated by two broad windows. So desirable in every
when divided between us, that the bargain was concluded upon
evening I moved my things round from the hotel, and on the
boxes and portmanteaus. For a day or two we were busily
advantage. That done, we gradually began to settle down and
He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were regular.
invariably breakfasted and gone out before I rose in the
laboratory, sometimes in the dissecting-rooms, and
the lowest portions of the City. Nothing could exceed his
a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie
moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions
that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use
his whole life forbidden such a notion.
As the weeks went by, my interest in him and my curiosity
.
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