for all
I care, only tie him up somewhere--"

"Professor Boomly!" cried Mildred excitedly. "Have you any Bimba leaves
concealed about your person?"

"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; Johore."

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 pass!--let it pass.

Deliberately I fished in my pocket, found my packet of cigarettes,
lighted one.

_Tobacco diffugiunt mordaces curae et laetificat cor hominis!_

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