infection or of drugs or poison. Agreeing that it was a most interesting case, and asking me to let them
know its progress and outcome, they departed.
At the beginning of the fourth hour, there was a change of expression, but not what I had been expecting.
In Walters' eyes, on her face, was only loathing. Once I thought I saw a flicker of the devilish anticipation
flash over her face. If so, it was quickly mastered. About the middle of the fourth hour, we saw
recognition again return to her eyes. Also, there was a perceptible rally of the slowing heart. I sensed an
intense gathering of nervous force.
And then her eyelids began to rise and fall, slowly, as though by tremendous effort, in measured time and
purposefully. Four times they raised and lowered; there was a pause; then nine times they lifted and fell;
again the pause, then they closed and opened once. Twice she did this-