"What do you see, Hoskins?"
He said, still staring through the lens:
"A leucocyte inside of which is a globe of phosphorescence. Its glow is neither dimmed when I turn on
the full illumination, nor is it increased when I lessen it. In all except the ingested globe the corpuscle
seems normal."
"And all of which," I said, "is quite impossible."
"Quite," he agreed, straightening. "Yet there it is!"
I transferred the slide to the micro-manipulator, hoping to isolate the corpuscle, and touched it with the
tip of the manipulating needle. At the instant of contact the corpuscle seemed to burst. The globe of
phosphorescence appeared to flatten, and something like a miniature flash of heat-lightning ran over the