last week was taken sick, and the doctor pronounces that typhoid,
too. Will I be the next? Is it just a foolish fear? Why does it
pursue us to New York? Why didn't it stop at Bisbee Hall?"

I don't think I ever saw a living creature more overcome by
horror, by an invisible, deadly fear. That was why it was doubly
horrible in a girl so attractive as Eveline Bisbee. As I listened
I felt how terrible it must be to be pursued by such a fear. What
must it be to be dogged by a disease as relentlessly as the
typhoid had dogged her? If it had been some great, but visible,
tangible peril how gladly I could have faced it merely for the
smile of a woman like this. But it was a peril that only
knowledge and patience could meet. Instinctively I turned toward
Kennedy, my own mind being an absolute blank.

"Is there anyone you suspect of being the cause of such an
epidemic?" he asked. "I may as well tell you right now that I
have already formed two theories--one perfectly natural, the
other diabolical. Tell me everything."

"Well, I had expected to receive a fortune of one million
dollars, free and clear, by his will and this morning I am
informed by his lawyer, James Denny, that a new will had been
made. It is still one million. But the remainder, instead of
going to a number of charities in which he was known to be
interested, goes to form a trust fund for the Bisbee School of
Mechanical Arts, of which Mr. Denny is the sole trustee. Of
course, I do not know much about my guardian's interests while he
was alive, but it strikes me as strange that he should have
changed so radically, and, besides, the new will is so worded