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 Twice in the first week of his new and strange service he recognized the occupants of the rooms as men whom he had seen in the upper world. On entering the room of one of these (at ten o’clock at night) he almost cried out in his surprise; for the limp, sallow-faced creature extended upon the bed before him was none other than Sir Brian Malpas—the brilliant politician whom his leaders had earmarked for office in the next Cabinet!

As Soames stood contemplating him stretched there in his stupor, he found it hard to credit the fact that this was the same man whom political rivals feared for his hard brilliance, whom society courted, and whose engagement to the daughter of a peer had been announced only a few months before.

Throughout this time, Soames had made no attempt to seek the light of day: he had not seen a newspaper; he knew nothing of the hue and cry raised throughout England, of the hunt for the murderer of Mrs. Vernon. He suffered principally from lack of companionship. The only human being with whom he ever came in contact was Said, the Egyptian; and Said, at best, was uncommunicative. A man of very limited intellect, Luke Soames had been at a loss for many days to reconcile Block A and its temporary occupants with any comprehensible scheme of things. Whereas some of the rooms would be laden with nauseating fumes, others would be free of these; the occupants, again, exhibited various symptoms.

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 That he was a servant of an opium-den de luxe did not for some time become apparent to him; then, when first the theory presented itself, he was staggered by a discovery so momentous.

But it satisfied his mind only partially. Some men whom he valeted might have been doped with opium, certainly, but all did not exhibit those indications which, from hearsay, he associated with the resin of the white poppy.

Knowing nothing of the numerous and exotic vices which have sprung from the soil of the Orient, he was at a loss for a full explanation of the facts as he saw them.

Finding himself unmolested, and noting, in the privacy of his own apartment, how handsomely his tips were accumulating, Soames was rapidly becoming reconciled to his underground existence, more especially as it spelt safety to a man wanted by the police. His duties thus far had never taken him beyond the corridor known as Block A; what might lie on the other side of the cave of the golden dragon he knew not. He never saw any of the habitués arrive, or actually leave; he did not know whether the staff of the place consisted of himself, Said, Ho-Pin, the Eurasian girl—and…the other, or if there were more servants of this unseen master. But never a day passed by that the clearance of at least one apartment did not fall to his lot, and never an occupant quitted those cells without placing a golden gratuity in the valet’s palm.

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 His appetite returned, and he slept soundly enough in his clean white bedroom, content to lose the upper world, temporarily, and to become a dweller in the catacombs—where tips were large and plentiful. His was the mind of a domestic animal, neither learning from the past nor questioning the future; but dwelling only in the well-fed present.

No other type of European, however lowly, could have supported existence in such a place.

Thus the days passed, and the nights passed, the one merged imperceptibly in the other. At the end of the first week, two sovereigns appeared upon the breakfast tray which Said brought to Soames’ room; and, some little time later, Said reappeared with his bottles and paraphernalia to renew the ex-butler’s make-up. As he was leaving the room:

“Ahu hina—G’nap’lis effendi!” he muttered, and went out as Mr. Gianapolis entered.

At sight of the Greek, Soames realized, in one emotional moment, how really lonely he had been and how in his inmost heart he longed for a sight of the sun, for a breath of unpolluted air, for a glimpse of gray, homely London.

All the old radiance had returned to Gianapolis; his eyes were crossed in an amiable smile.

“My dear Soames!” he cried, greeting the really delighted man. “How well your new complexion suits you! Sit down, Soames, sit down, and let us talk.”

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 himself upon the bed, twirling his thumbs in the manner which was his when under the influence of excitement.

“Now, Soames,” continued Gianapolis—“I mean Lucas!—my anticipations, which I mentioned to you on the night of—the accident…you remember?”

“Yes,” said Soames rapidly, “yes.”

“Well, they have been realized. Our establishment, here, continues to flourish as of yore. Nothing has come to light in the press calculated to prejudice us in the eyes of our patrons, and although your own name, Soames”…

Soames started and clutched at the bedcover.

“Although your own name has been freely mentioned on all sides, it is not generally accepted that you perpetrated the deed.”

Soames discovered his hair to be bristling; his skin tingled with a nervous apprehension.

“That I,” he began dryly, paused and swallowed—“that I perpetrated.…Has it been”…

“It has been hinted at by one or two Fleet Street theorists—yes, Soames! But the post-mortem examination of—the victim, revealed the fact that she was addicted to drugs”…

“Opium?” asked Soames, eagerly.

Gianapolis smiled.

“What an observant mind you have, Soames!” he said. “So you have perceived that these groves are sacred to our Lady of the Poppies? Well, in

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 part that is true. Here, under the auspices of Mr. Ho-Pin, fretful society seeks the solace of the brass pipe; yes, Soames, that is true. Have you ever tried opium?”

“Never!” declared Soames, with emphasis, “never!”

“Well, it is a delight in store for you! But the reason of our existence as an institution, Soames, is not far to seek. Once the joys of Chandu become perceptible to the neophyte, a great need is felt—a crying need. One may drink opium or inject morphine; these, and other crude measures, may satisfy temporarily, but if one would enjoy the delights of that fairyland, of that enchanted realm which bountiful nature has concealed in the heart of the poppy, one must retire from the ken of goths and vandals who do not appreciate such exquisite delights; one must dedicate, not an hour snatched from grasping society, but successive days and nights to the goddess”…

Soames, barely understanding this discourse, listened eagerly to every word of it, whilst Gianapolis, waxing eloquent upon his strange thesis, seemed to be addressing, not his solitary auditor, but an invisible concourse.

“In common with the lesser deities,” he continued, “our Lady of the Poppies is exacting. After a protracted sojourn at her shrine, so keen are the delights which she opens up to her worshipers, that a period of lassitude, of exhaustion, inevitably

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. This precludes the proper worship of the goddess in the home, and necessitates—I say necessitates—the presence, in such a capital as London, of a suitable Temple. You have the honor, Soames, to be a minor priest of that Temple!”

Soames brushed his dyed hair with his fingers and endeavored to look intelligent.

“A branch establishment—merely a sacred caravanserai where votaries might repose ere reentering the ruder world,” continued Gianapolis—“has unfortunately been raided by the police!”

With that word, police, he seemed to come to earth again.

“Our arrangements, I am happy to say, were such that not one of the staff was found on the premises and no visible link existed between that establishment and this. But now let us talk about yourself. You may safely take an evening off, I think”…

He scrutinized Soames attentively.

“You will be discreet as a matter of course, and I should not recommend your visiting any of your former haunts. I make this proposal, of course, with the full sanction of Mr. King.”

The muscles of Soames’ jaw tightened at sound of the name, and he avoided the gaze of the crossed eyes.

“And the real purpose of my visit here this morning is to acquaint you with the little contrivance by which we ensure our privacy here. Once you are

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 acquainted with it, you can take the air every evening at suitable hours, on application to Mr. Ho-Pin.”

Soames coughed dryly.

“Very good,” he said in a strained voice; “I am glad of that.”

“I knew you would be glad, Soames,” declared the smiling Gianapolis; “and now, if you will step this way, I will show you the door by which you must come and go.” He stood up, then bent confidentially to Soames’ ear. “Mr. King, very wisely,” he whispered, “has retained you on the premises hitherto, because some doubt, some little doubt, remained respecting the information which had come into the possession of the police.”

Again that ominous word! But ere Soames had time to reflect, Gianapolis led the way out of the room and along the matting-lined corridor into the apartment of the golden dragon. Soames observed, with a nervous tremor, that Mr. Ho-Pin sat upon one of the lounges, smoking a cigarette, and arrayed in his usual faultless manner. He did not attempt to rise, however, as the pair entered, but merely nodded to Gianapolis and smiled mirthlessly at Soames.

They quitted the room by the door opening on the stone steps—the door by which Soames had first entered into that evil Aladdin’s cave. Gianapolis went ahead, and Soames, following him, presently emerged through a low doorway into a concrete-paved apartment, having walls of Portland stone and

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 a white-washed ceiling. One end consisted solely of a folding gate, evidently designed to admit the limousine.

Gianapolis turned, as Soames stepped up beside him.

“If you will glance back,” he said, “you will see exactly where the door is situated.”

Soames did as directed, and suppressed a cry of surprise. Four of the stone blocks were fictitious—were, in verity, a heavy wooden door, faced in some way with real, or imitation granite—a door communicating with the steps of the catacombs.

“Observe!” said Gianapolis.

He closed the door, which opened outward, and there remained nothing to show the keenest observer—unless he had resorted to sounding—that these four blocks differed in any way from their fellows.

“Ingenious, is it not?” said Gianapolis, genially. “And now, my dear Soames, observe again!”

He rolled back the folding gates; and beyond was a garage, wherein stood the big limousine.

“I keep my car here, Soames, for the sake of—convenience! And now, my dear Soames, when you go out this evening, Said will close this entrance after you. When you return, which, I understand, you must do at ten o’clock, you will enter the garage by the side door yonder, which will not be locked, and you will press the electric button at the back of the petrol cans here—look! you can see it!—the

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 inner door will then be opened for you. Step this way.”

He passed between the car and the wall of the garage, opened the door at the left of the entrance gates, and, Soames following, came out into a narrow lane. For the first time in many days Soames scented the cleaner air of the upper world, and with it he filled his lungs gratefully.

Behind him was the garage, before him the high wall of a yard, and, on his right, for a considerable distance, extended a similar wall; in the latter case evidently that of a wharf—for beyond it flowed the Thames.

Proceeding along beside this wall, the two came to the gates of a warehouse. They passed these, however, and entered a small office. Crossing the office, they gained the interior of the warehouse, where chests bearing Chinese labels were stacked in great profusion.

“Then this place,” began Soames…

“Is a ginger warehouse, Soames! There is a very small office staff, but sufficiently large to cope with the limited business done—in the import and export of ginger! The firm is known as Kan-Suh Concessions and imports preserved Chinese ginger from its own plantations in that province of the Celestial Empire. There is a small wharf attached, as you may have noted. Oh! it is a going concern and perfectly respectable!”

Soames looked about him with wide-opened eyes.

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 “The ginger staff,” said Gianapolis, “is not yet arrived. Mr. Ho-Pin is the manager. The lane, in which the establishment is situated, communicates with Limehouse Causeway, and, being a cul-de-sac, is little frequented. Only this one firm has premises actually opening into it and I have converted the small corner building at the extremity of the wharf into a garage for my car. There are no means of communication between the premises of Kan-Suh Concessions and those of the more important enterprise below—and I, myself, am not officially associated with the ginger trade. It is a precaution which we all adopt, however, never to enter or leave the garage if anyone is in sight.”…

Soames became conscious of a new security. He set about his duties that morning with a greater alacrity than usual, valeting one of the living dead men—a promising young painter whom he chanced to know by sight—with a return to the old affable manner which had rendered him so popular during his career as cabin steward.

He felt that he was now part and parcel of Kan-Suh Concessions; that Kan-Suh Concessions and he were at one. He had yet to learn that his sense of security was premature, and that his added knowledge might be an added danger.

When Said brought his lunch into his room, he delivered also a slip of paper bearing the brief message:

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 “Go out 6.30—return 10.”

Mr. Soames uncorked his daily bottle of Bass almost gaily, and attacked his lunch with avidity.

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HE night had set in grayly, and a drizzle of fine rain was falling. West India Dock Road presented a prospect so uninviting that it must have damped the spirits of anyone but a cave-dweller.

Soames, buttoned up in a raincoat kindly lent by Mr. Gianapolis, and of a somewhat refined fit, with a little lagoon of rainwater forming within the reef of his hat-brim, trudged briskly along. The necessary ingredients for the manufacture of mud are always present (if invisible during dry weather) in the streets of East-end London, and already Soames’ neat black boots were liberally bedaubed with it. But what cared Soames? He inhaled the soot-laden air rapturously; he was glad to feel the rain beating upon his face, and took a childish pleasure in ducking his head suddenly and seeing the little stream of water spouting from his hat-brim. How healthy they looked, these East-end workers, these Italian dock-hands, these Jewish tailors, these nondescript, greasy beings who sometimes saw the sun. Many of them, he knew well, labored in cellars; but he had learnt that there are cellars and cellars. Ah! it was glorious, this gray, murky London!

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 Yet, now that temporarily he was free of it, he realized that there was that within him which responded to the call of the catacombs; there was a fascination in the fume-laden air of those underground passages; there was a charm, a mysterious charm, in the cave of the golden dragon, in that unforgettable place which he assumed to mark the center of the labyrinth; in the wicked, black eyes of the Eurasian. He realized that between the abstraction of silver spoons and deliberate, organized money-making at the expense of society, a great chasm yawned; that there may be romance even in felony.

Soames at last felt himself to be a traveler on the highroad to fortune; he had become almost reconciled to the loss of his bank balance, to the loss of his place in the upper world. His was the constitution of a born criminal, and, had he been capable of subtle self-analysis, he must have known now that fear, and fear only, hitherto had held him back, had confined him to the ranks of the amateurs. Well, the plunge was taken.

Deep in such reflections, he trudged along through the rain, scarce noting where his steps were leading him, for all roads were alike to-night. His natural inclinations presently dictated a halt at a brilliantly-lighted public house; and, taking off his hat to shake some of the moisture from it, he replaced it on his head and entered the saloon lounge.

The place proved to be fairly crowded,

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 with local tradesmen whose forefathers had toiled for Pharaoh; and conveying his glass of whisky to a marble-topped table in a corner comparatively secluded, Soames sat down for a consideration of past, present, and future; an unusual mental exercise. Curiously enough, he had lost something of his old furtiveness; he no longer examined, suspiciously, every stranger who approached his neighborhood; for as the worshipers of old came by the gate of Fear into the invisible presence of Moloch, so he—of equally untutored mind—had entered the presence of Mr. King! And no devotee of the Ammonite god had had greater faith in his potent protection than Soames had in that of his unseen master. What should a servant of Mr. King fear from the officers of the law? How puny a thing was the law in comparison with the director of that secret, powerful, invulnerable organization whereof to-day he (Soames) formed an unit!

Then, oddly, the old dormant cowardice of the man received a sudden spurring, and leaped into quickness. An evening paper lay upon the marble top of the table, and carelessly taking it up, Soames, hitherto lost in imaginings, was now reminded that for more than a week he had lain in ignorance of the world’s doings. Good Heavens! how forgetful he had been! It was the nepenthe of the catacombs. He must make up for lost time and get in touch again with passing events: especially he must post himself up on the subject of…the murder.…

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 The paper dropped from his hands, and, feeling himself blanch beneath his artificial tan, Soames, in his old furtive manner, glanced around the saloon to learn if he were watched. Apparently no one was taking the slightest notice of him, and, with an unsteady hand, he raised his glass and drained its contents. There, at the bottom of the page before him, was the cause of this sudden panic; a short paragraph conceived as follows:—

Soames laid down the paper, and, walking across to the bar, ordered a second glass of whisky. With this he returned to the table and began more calmly to re-read the paragraph. From it he passed to the other news. He noted that little publicity was given to the Palace Mansions affair, from which he judged that public interest in the matter was already growing cold. A short summary appeared on the front page, and this he eagerly devoured. It read as follows:—

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 served somewhat to restore his failing courage; he congratulated himself upon taking the only move which could have saved him from arrest; he perceived that he owed his immunity entirely to the protective wings of Mr. King. He trembled to think that his fate might indeed have been that of the man arrested at Olton; for, without money and without friends, he would have become, ere this, just such an outcast and natural object of suspicion.

He noted, as a curious circumstance, that throughout the report there was no reference to the absence of Mrs. Leroux; therefore—a primitive reasoner—he assumed that she was back again at Palace Mansions. He was mentally incapable of fitting Mrs. Leroux into the secret machine engineered by Mr. King through the visible agency of Ho-Pin. On the whole, he was disposed to believe that her several absences—ostensibly on visits to Paris—had nothing to do with the catacombs of Ho-Pin, but were to be traced to the amours of the radiant Gianapolis. Taking into consideration his reception by the Chinaman in the cave of the golden dragon, he determined, to his own satisfaction, that this had been dictated by prudence, and by Mr. Gianapolis. In short he believed that the untimely murder of Mrs. Vernon had threatened to direct attention to the commercial enterprise of the Greek, and that he, Soames, had become incorporated in the latter in this accidental fashion. He believed himself to have been employed in a private intrigue

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 during the time that he was at Palace Mansions, and counted it a freak of fate that Mr. Gianapolis’ affairs of the pocket had intruded upon his affairs of the heart.

It was all very confusing, and entirely beyond Soames’ mental capacity to unravel.

He treated himself to a third scotch whisky, and sallied out into the rain. A brilliantly lighted music hall upon the opposite side of the road attracted his attention. The novelty of freedom having worn off, he felt no disposition to spend the remainder of the evening in the street, for the rain was now falling heavily, but determined to sample the remainder of the program offered by the “first house,” and presently was reclining in a plush-covered, tip-up seat in the back row of the stalls.

The program was not of sufficient interest wholly to distract his mind, and during the performance of a very tragic comedian, Soames found his thoughts wandering far from the stage. His seat was at the extreme end of the back row, and, quite unintentionally, he began to listen to the conversation of two men, who, standing just inside the entrance door and immediately behind him to the right, were talking in subdued voices.

“There are thousands of Kings in London,” said one…

Soames slowly lowered his hands to the chair-arms on either side of him and clutched them tightly.

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 Every nerve in his body seemed to be strung up to the ultimate pitch of tensity. He was listening, now, as a man arraigned might listen for the pronouncement of a judgment.

“That’s the trouble,” replied a second voice; “but you know Max’s ideas on the subject? He has his own way of going to work; but my idea, Sowerby, is that if we can find the one Mr. Soames—and I am open to bet he hasn’t left London—we shall find the right Mr. King.”

The comedian finished, and the orchestra noisily chorded him off. Soames, his forehead wet with perspiration, began to turn his head, inch by inch. The lights in the auditorium were partially lowered, and he prayed, devoutly, that they would remain so; for now, glancing out of the corner of his right eye, he saw the speakers.

The taller of the two, a man wearing a glistening brown overall and rain-drenched tweed cap, was the detective who had been in Leroux’s study and who had ordered him to his room on the night of the murder!

Then commenced for Soames such an ordeal as all his previous life had not offered him; an ordeal beside which even the interview with Mr. King sank into insignificance. His one hope was in the cunning of Said’s disguise; but he knew that Scotland Yard men judged likenesses, not by complexions, which are alterable, not by the color of the hair,

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 which can be dyed, but by certain features which are measurable, and which may be memorized because nature has fashioned them immutable.

What should he do?—What should he do? In the silence:

“No good stopping any longer,” came the whispered voice of the shorter detective; “I have had a good look around the house, and there is nobody here.”…

Soames literally held his breath.

“We’ll get along down to the Dock Gate,” was the almost inaudible reply; “I am meeting Stringer there at nine o’clock.”

Walking softly, the Scotland Yard men passed out of the theater.

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HE night held yet another adventure in store for Soames. His encounter with the two Scotland Yard men had finally expelled all thoughts of pleasure from his mind. The upper world, the free world, was beset with pitfalls; he realized that for the present, at any rate, there could be no security for him, save in the catacombs of Ho-Pin. He came out of the music-hall and stood for a moment just outside the foyer, glancing fearfully up and down the rain-swept street. Then, resuming the drenched raincoat which he had taken off in the theater, and turning up its collar about his ears, he set out to return to the garage adjoining the warehouse of Kan-Suh Concessions.

He had fully another hour of leave if he cared to avail himself of it, but, whilst every pedestrian assumed, in his eyes, the form of a detective, whilst every dark corner seemed to conceal an ambush, whilst every passing instant he anticipated feeling a heavy hand upon his shoulder, and almost heard the words:— “Luke Soames, I arrest you”…Whilst this was his case, freedom had no joys for him.

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 No light guided him to the garage door, and he was forced to seek for the handle by groping along the wall. Presently, his hand came in contact with it, he turned it—and the way was open before him.

Being far from familiar with the geography of the place, he took out a box of matches, and struck one to light him to the shelf above which the bell-push was concealed.

Its feeble light revealed, not only the big limousine near which he was standing and the usual fixtures of a garage, but, dimly penetrating beyond into the black places, it also revealed something else.…

The door in the false granite blocks was open!

Soames, who had advanced to seek the bell-push, stopped short. The match burnt down almost to his fingers, whereupon he blew it out and carefully crushed it under his foot. A faint reflected light rendered perceptible the stone steps below. At the top, Soames stood looking down. Nothing stirred above, below, or around him. What did it mean? Dimly to his ears came the hooting of some siren from the river—evidently that of a large vessel. Still he hesitated; why he did so, he scarce knew, save that he was afraid—vaguely afraid.

Then, he asked himself what he had to fear, and conjuring up a mental picture of his white bedroom below, he planted his foot firmly upon the first step, and from thence, descended to the bottom, guided

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 by the faint light which shone out from the doorway beneath.

But the door proved to be only partly opened, and Soames knocked deferentially. No response came to his knocking, and he so greatly ventured as to push the door fully open.

The cave of the golden dragon was empty. Half frightfully, Soames glanced about the singular apartment, in amid the mountainous cushions of the leewans, behind the pedestal of the dragon; to the right and to the left of the doorway wherein he stood.

There was no one there; but the door on the right—the door inlaid with ebony and green stone, which he had never yet seen open was open now, widely opened. He glided across the floor, his wet boots creaking unmusically, and peeped through. He saw a matting-lined corridor identical with that known as Block A. The door of one apartment, that on the extreme left, was opened. Sickly fumes were wafted out to him, and these mingled with the incense-like odor which characterized the temple of the dragon.

A moment he stood so, then started back, appalled.

An outcry—the outcry of a woman, of a woman whose very soul is assailed—split the stillness. Not from the passageway before him, but from somewhere behind him—from the direction of Block A—it came.

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 “For God’s sake—oh! for God’s sake, have mercy! Let me go!…let me go!” Higher, shriller, more fearful and urgent, grew the voice—“Let me go!”…

Soames’ knees began to tremble beneath him; he clutched at the black wall for support; then turned, and with unsteady footsteps crossed to the door communicating with the corridor which contained his room. It had a lever handle of the Continental pattern, and, trembling with apprehension that it might prove to be locked, Soames pressed down this handle.

The door opened…

“Hina, effendi!—hina!”

The voice sounded like that of Said.…

“Oh! God in Heaven help me!…Help!—help!”…

“Imsik!”…

Footsteps were pattering upon the stone stairs; someone was descending from the warehouse! The frenzied shrieks of the woman continued. Soames broke into a cold perspiration; his heart, which had leaped wildly, seemed now to have changed to a cold stone in his breast. Just at the entrance to the corridor he stood, frozen with horror at those cries.

“Ikfil el-bâb!” came now, in the voice of Ho-Pin,—and nearer.

“Let me go!…only let me go, and I will never breathe a word.…Ah! Ah! Oh! God of

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 mercy! not the needle again! You are killing me!…not the needle!”…

Soames staggered on to his own room and literally fell within—as across the cave of the golden dragon, behind him, someone—one whom he did not see but only heard, one whom with all his soul he hoped had not seen him—passed rapidly.

Another shriek, more frightful than any which had preceded it, struck the trembling man as an arrow might have struck him. He dropped upon his knees at the side of the bed and thrust his fingers firmly into his ears. He had never swooned in his life, and was unfamiliar with the symptoms, but now he experienced a sensation of overpowering nausea; a blood-red mist floated before his eyes, and the floor seemed to rock beneath him like the deck of a ship.…

That soul-appalling outcry died away, merged into a sobbing, moaning sound which defied Soames’ efforts to exclude it.…He rose to his feet, feeling physically ill, and turned to close his door.…

They were dragging someone—someone who sighed, shudderingly, and whose sighs sank to moans, and sometimes rose to sobs,—across the apartment of the dragon. In a faint, dying voice, the woman spoke again:—

“Not Mr. King!…not Mr. King!…Is there no God in Heaven!…Ah! spare me…spare”…

Soames closed the door and stood propped up

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 against it, striving to fight down the deathly sickness which assailed him. His clothes were sticking to his clammy body, and a cold perspiration was trickling down his forehead and into his eyes. The sensation at his heart was unlike anything that he had ever known; he thought that he must be dying.

The awful sounds died away…then a muffled disturbance drew his attention to a sort of square trap which existed high up on one wall of the room, but which admitted no light, and which hitherto had never admitted any sound. Now, in the utter darkness, he found himself listening—listening…

He had learnt, during his duties in Block A, that each of the minute suites was rendered sound-proof in some way, so that what took place in one would be inaudible to the occupant of the next, provided that both doors were closed. He perceived, now, that some precaution hitherto exercised continuously had been omitted to-night, and that the sounds which he could hear came from the room next to his own—the room which opened upon the corridor that he had never entered, and which now he classified, mentally, as Block B.

What did it mean?

Obviously there had been some mishap in the usually smooth conduct of Ho-Pin’s catacombs. There had been a hurried outgoing in several directions…a search?

And by the accident of his returning an hour

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 earlier than he was expected, he was become a witness of this incident, or of its dreadful, concluding phases. He had begun to move away from the door, but now he returned, and stood leaning against it.

That stifling room where roses shed their petals, had been opened to-night; a chill touched the very center of his being and told him so. The occupant of that room—the Minotaur of this hideous labyrinth—was at large to-night, was roaming the passages about him, was perhaps outside his very door.…

Dull moaning sounds reached him through the trap. He realized that if he had the courage to cross the room, stand upon a chair and place his ear to the wall, he might be able to detect more of what was passing in the next apartment. But craven fear held him in its grip, and in vain he strove to shake it off. Trembling wildly, he stood with his back to the door, whilst muttered words, and moans, ever growing fainter, reached him from beyond. A voice, a harsh, guttural voice—surely not that of Ho-Pin—was audible, above the moaning.

For two minutes—three minutes—four minutes—he stood there, tottering on the brink of insensibility, then…a faint sound—a new sound,—drew his gaze across the room, and up to the corner where the trap was situated.

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 A very dim light was dawning there; he could just detect the outline of an opening—a half-light breaking the otherwise impenetrable darkness.

He felt that his capacity for fear was strained to its utmost; that he could support nothing more, yet a new horror was in store for him; for, as he watched that gray patch, in it, as in a frame, a black silhouette appeared—the silhouette of a human head…a woman’s head!

Soames convulsively clenched his jaws, for his teeth were beginning to chatter.

A whistle, an eerie, minor whistle, subscribed the ultimate touch of terror to the night. The silhouette disappeared, and, shortly afterwards, the gray luminance. A faint click told of some shutter being fastened; complete silence reigned.

Soames groped his way to the bed and fell weakly upon it, half lying down and burying his face in the pillow. For how long, he had no idea, but for some considerable time, he remained so, fighting to regain sufficient self-possession to lie to Ho-Pin, who sooner or later must learn of his return.

At last he managed to sit up. He was not trembling quite so wildly, but he still suffered from a deathly sickness. A faint streak of light from the corridor outside shone under his door. As he noted it, it was joined by a second streak, forming a triangle.

There was a very soft rasping of metal. Someone was opening the door!

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 Soames lay back upon the bed. This time he was past further panic and come to a stage of sickly apathy. He lay, now, because he could not sit upright, because stark horror had robbed him of physical strength, and had drained the well of his emotions dry.

Gradually—so that the operation seemed to occupy an interminable time, the door opened, and in the opening a figure appeared.

The switch clicked, and the room was flooded with electric light.

Ho-Pin stood watching him.

Soames—in his eyes that indescribable expression seen in the eyes of a bird placed in a cobra’s den—met the Chinaman’s gaze. This gaze was no different from that which habitually he directed upon the people of the catacombs. His yellow face was set in the same mirthless smile, and his eyebrows were raised interrogatively. For the space of ten seconds, he stood watching the man on the bed. Then:—

“You wreturn vewry soon, Mr. Soames?” he said, softly.

Soames groaned like a dying man, whispering:

“I was…taken ill—very ill.”…

“So you wreturn befowre the time awranged for you?”

His metallic voice was sunk in a soothing hiss. He smiled steadily: he betrayed no emotion.

“Yes…sir,” whispered Soames, his hair

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 clammily adhering to his brow and beads of perspiration trickling slowly down his nose.

“And when you wreturn, you see and you hear—stwrange things, Mr. Soames?”

Soames, who was in imminent danger of becoming physically ill, gulped noisily.

“No, sir,” he whispered,—tremulously, “I’ve been—in here all the time.”

Ho-Pin nodded, slowly and sympathetically, but never removed the glittering eyes from the face of the man on the bed.

“So you hear nothing, and see nothing?”

The words were spoken even more softly than he had spoken hitherto.

“Nothing,” protested Soames. He suddenly began to tremble anew, and his trembling rattled the bed. “I have been—very ill indeed, sir.”

Ho-Pin nodded again slowly, and with deep sympathy.

“Some medicine shall be sent to you, Mr. Soames,” he said.

He turned and went out slowly, closing the door behind him.

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Executive Order 13558

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User talk:65.70.66.194

--Zyephyrus (talk) 08:12, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

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Author:John Jamieson

Works

 * Sermons on the Heart (1789)
 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2
 * A Vindication of the Doctrine of Scripture (1794)
 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2
 * The Use of Sacred History (1802)
 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2
 * Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808)
 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2
 * A Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1846) abridged by John Johnstone
 * Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (Longmuir-Donaldson) (1879-1887) revised edition by John Longmuir and David Donaldson
 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2
 * Volume 3
 * A Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona (1890)

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Author:James Sykes Gamble

Works

 * (in part)

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Translation:On the Apparent Mass of the Ions

Über die scheinbare Masse der Ionen


text: Popular Tales from the Norse/The Cat on the Dovrefell


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 Owen, Edward, s. Edward, of Oxford (city), doctor. , matric. 6 June, 1744, aged 18; B.A. 1748, died rector of Southwick, Northants, in 1796.  Owen, Edward, s. David, of Llangurig, co. Montgomery, pleb. , matric. 22 March, 1745-6, aged 17; B.A. 1749, M.A. 1752, master of the Free Grammar School, Warrington, and rector 1767, until his death in 1807. See O.H.S., ix. 248.  Owen, Edward, s. Robert, of Dolgelly, co. Merioneth, pleb. , matric. 8 March, 1758, aged 19.  Owen, Edward, s. John, of Llanaber, co. Merioneth, pleb. , matric. 18 March, 1769, aged 19; B.A. 1772.  Owen, Edward, s. Lewis, of Gwalchmal, Isle of Anglesey, arm. , matric. 4 June, 1778, aged 19; B.A. 1783.  [5]

Owen, Edward, 1s. Edward, of 'Mancuo,' Jamaica, arm. (D. Med.). , matric. 9 Nov., 1835, aged 17; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, curate of Gawsworth, Cheshire, died 31 July, 1848.  Owen, Edward, 2s. Hugh Davies, of Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey,, matric. 30 June, 1843, aged 17; scholar 1844-9, B.A. 1848, fellow 1849-63, M.A. 1850, B.D. 1858, librarian 1850, Latin lecturer 1852, chaplain to the Forces in the Crimea 1854-5; incumbent of Bodwrog and Llandrygan, died 6 May, 1864.  Owen, Edward Charles Everard, o.s. Edward Henry, of Forres, co. Moray, cler. , matric. 16 Oct., 1879, aged 19, scholar 1879-84, exhibitioner 1882-4, B.A. 1883; fellow 1884, M.A. 1886, classical lecturer 1884.

Owen, Edward Henry, s. William, of Felton, Salop, arm. , matric. 21 Oct., 1802, aged 18, B.A. 1806; fellow 1809-17, M.A. 1810, rector of Cound, Salop, 1816, until his death 28 Nov., 1838.

Owen, Edward John, o.s. Edward, of Wood Street, Cheapside, London, arm. , matric. 18 April, 1822, aged 17.
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Owen, Edward Robert, chirurgus, s. — O., doctor; privilegiatus 29 June, 1842, aged 33.

Owen, Edward Roberts, s. Robert, of Llanenddwyn, co. Merioneth, cler. , matric. 11 March, 1771, aged 17; B.A. 1774, M.A. 1783.

Owen, Rev. Edward Tudor, 2s. Richard, of Denbigh (town). , matric. 24 March, 1857, aged 15; B.A. 1860, M.A. 1865.

Owen, Edwin James, 1s. Elias, of Llanllechid, co. Carmarthen, cler. , matric. 18 Oct., 1880, aged 21.

Owen, Ellis Anwyl, s. Richard, of Aberfraw, co. Anglesea, gent. , matric. 27 March, 1809, aged 18; scholar 1812-17, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815 (? rector of Llanystymdwy, co. Carnarvon, and chaplain to the Earl of Uxbridge 1841, died 22 May, 1846).
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Owen, Eugene, s. Owen, of Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesea, gent. , matric. 28 May, 1813, aged 15.

Owen, Evan, s. Edward, of Llanglynin, co. Merioneth, pleb. , matric. 15 Nov., 1716, aged 20.

Owen, Evan, s. Richard, of Cemmaes, co. Montgomery, pleb. , matric. 27 May, 1773, aged 19; B.A. 1777.

Owen, Francis, s. William, of Porkington, Salop, arm. , matric. 7 Dec., 1764, aged 18; created M.A. 4 Nov., 1768, died unmarried, brother of Robert 1751.

Owen, Francis, s. Thomas, of Llanfair, Isle of Anglesea, cler. , matric. 30 Nov., 1803, aged 17; B.A. 1807. (Memo.: Rev. — Owen, of Christ Church, died 1 July, 1808. See Gent.'s Mag., 1808. ii. 660.)
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Owen, George Dorsett, 2s. George Dorsett, of Oswestry, Salop, gent. , matric. 27 March, 1851, aged 21.

Owen, George Titus, o.s. Titus, of London, gent. , matric. 25 June, 1840, aged 18.

Owen, George Welsh, s. George, of Tiverton, Devon, arm. , matric. 23 Oct., 1801, aged 17.

Owen, George Welsh, 1s. George, of Tiverton, Devon, arm. , matric. 15 Oct., 1828, aged 18; B.A. from 1832, M.A. 1836 rector of Calverleigh, Devon, 1841-85.

Owen, Griffin (Griffith in Mat. Reg.), s. Griffith, of Dolgelly, co. Merioneth, pleb. , matric. 19 March, 1771, aged 19; B.A. 1774, rector of Llanenddwyn, co. Merioneth, died in 1826.
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Owen, Griffith, s. Griffith, of Towyn, co. Merioneth, cler. , matric. 20 March, 1803, aged 18; B.A. 1807, died rector of Dolbenmaen and Penmorta, 18 Nov., 1853.

Owen, Goronwy (Gronovius), s. Owen, of Llanfair Mathafarn, pleb. , matric. 3 June, 1742, aged 19; 'premier poet of Wales,' classical master at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., 3 years minister of St. Andrew's, Brunswick County, Va., up to 1767, died 1769. See Notes and Queries, 7 April, 1888.

Owen, Henry, s. William, of Dolgelly, co. Merioneth, pleb. , matric. 15 April, 1736, aged 19; B.A. 1739, M.A. 1743, B.Med. 1746, D.Med. 1753. rector of St. Olave, Hart Street, London, 1750-94, vicar of Edmonton, Middlesex, 1775, until his death 14 Oct., 1795; for list of his works see Gent.'s Mag., 1795, ii. 884b.

Owen, Henry, s. William, of Holyhead, Isle of Anglesea, gent. , matric. 14 Jan., 1815, aged 25.

Owen, Rev. Henry, of, Cambridge (B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830); adm. 'ad eundem' 5 June, 1845 (? rector of Heveningham, Suffolk, 1834).
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Owen, Henry, 4s. William, of Haverfordwest, co. Pembroke, arm. , matric. 17 May, 1862, aged 18; B.A. 1866, B.C.L. 1869.

Owen, Henry Butts, s. Henry, of Crutched Friars, London, doctor. , matric. 7 July, 1780, aged 16; fellow 1783, B.A. 1784, M.A. 1788, B.D. 1793, D.D. 1805, rector of St. Olave, Hart Street, 1794, and of Throcking, Herts, 1801, died 29 Nov., 1837. See Robinson, 135.

Owen, Henry Percy, 4s. Robert, of Sydney, Australia, gent. , matric. 8 May, 1880, aged 20; B.A. 1883, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1885.

Owen, Herbert Dorset, 2s. John Maurice Dorset, of Hindringham, Norfolk, cler. , matric. 17 Oct., 1882, aged 19; scholar 1882, B.A. 1886.

Owen, Hugh, of, B.A. 22 June, 1721 (Acts Book).
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Owen, Hugh, s. Robert, of Holyhead, Isle of Anglesea, gent. , matric. 3 April, 1728, aged 17; bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1737.

Owen, Hugh (M.A. from ) s. John, of St. Ann's, Soho, Westminster, gent. , incorp. 2 March, 1784, aged 35; B. & D.D. 15 March, 1790.

Owen, (Sir) Hugh (Bart.), s. Hugh, of Mounton, co. Pembroke, baronet. , matric. 28 Jan., 1801, aged 18; 6th baronet, M.P. Pembroke (town) 1809, until his death 8 Aug., 1809. See Foster's Baronetage & Eton School Lists.

Owen, Hugh Davies, s. Owen, of Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesea, gent. , matric. 28 May, 1813, aged 16; scholar 1813-22, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819, B. & D.D. 1834, rector of Trevdaeth, Bangor, 1849-80, died 4 Sep., 1881.
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 Peers, Charles, of, Cambridge, M.A.; adm. 'ad eundem' 6 July, 1810 (B.A. 1799, M.A. 1804), created D.C.L. 14 June, 1820, then of Chislehampton, Oxon, high sheriff 1821 (s. Robert, of Chislehampton), F.S.A., bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1802, recorder of Henley-on-Thames, died 6 Feb., 1853.  Peers, Henry, s. Henry, of Isle of Barbados, arm. , matric. 16 Dec., 1720, aged 17; bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 9 July, 1736, buried in Middle Temple vault, Temple Church, on Thursday, 12 Aug., 1736.  Peers, Henry, s. Richard, of Faringdon, Berks, cler. , matric. 2 July, 1734, aged 15; B.A. from 1738, M.A. 1742, vicar Unchurch, Kent, 1742 (? died at Egloshayle vicarage, Cornwall, 28 June, 1793).  Peers, Henry, s. Henry, of Linnee, in Southampton, Hants, arm. , matric. 1 Nov., 1810, aged 19.  Peers, Rev. Herbert James, 1s. Henry Robert, of Mostley Hill, Lancashire, gent. , matric. 18 Oct., 1883, aged 18; B.A. 1887.  [5]

Peers, John (Witherington), s. Charles, of Bromley, Middlesex, arm. , matric. 9 Dec., 1763, aged 18; B.A. 1767, M.A. 1770, D.C.L. 1778, incumbent Chislehampton, Oxon, 1770, rector of Morden, Surrey, 1778, until his death 29 April, 1835, grandfather of John Witherington next named.  Peers, John Witherington, of, Cambridge (B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836); 'ad eundem' 14 May, 1858, son of John Peers.  Peers, Richard, s. Richard, of St. Mich., Queenhythe, arm. , matric. 21 Jan., 1762, aged 18.

Peers, Robert, s. Charles, of Chislehampton, Oxon, arm. , matric. 10 Oct., 1763, aged 21, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1766, and a bencher 1800, died at Chislehampton 4 Feb., 1818, father of Charles.

Peers, Samuel, s. William, of, Kent, gent. , matric. 26 May, 1723, B.A. from 26 Jan., 1726-7.
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Peet, Arthur William, 4s. Joseph, of Mavelicara, India, cler. , matric. 18 Oct., 1867, aged 22.

Peet, Henry Herbert, 1s. John, of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, arm. , matric. 15 Oct., 1886, aged 19.

Peet, Rev. Thomas, 3s. Thomas, of Ormskirk, Lancashire, gent. , matric. 12 Oct., 1878, aged 34; B.A. 1881, M.A. 1885.

Peete, William Willox, s. William, of Dartford, Kent, arm. , matric. 20 Jan., 1815, aged 16; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823.

Peeters, John, s. John, of Bromley, Kent, gent. , matric. 18 March, 1812, aged 27.
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Pegge, (Sir) Christopher, s. Samuel, of Westminster, arm. , matric. 18 April, 1782, aged 17, B.A. 1786; fellow 1788-90, M.A. 1789, B.Med. 1789; D.Med. from 1792, Lees reader in anatomy 1790, regius professor of medicine 1801-22, F.R.S. 1795, knighted 26 June, 1790, fellow College Physicians 1796, master of Ewelme Hospital, etc., died 3 Aug., 1822. See Munk's Roll, ii. 449.

Pegge, Samuel, fellow, Cambridge (B.A. 1725, M.A. 1729), created D.C.L. 8 July, 1791, preb. of Lichfield 1763, and of Lincoln 1772, rector of Whittington, co. Derby, died 14 Feb., 1796.

Peglar, John, s. John, of King's Norton, co. Worcester, gent. , matric. 25 March, 1802, aged 18; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, perp. curate of Bishopston, co. Warwick, 1821, vicar of Alveston 1846, until his death 23 April, 1856. See Eton School Lists.

Pegler, John, s. Andrew, of Gloucester (city), pleb. , matric. 10 Oct., 1740, aged 19; B.A. 1744, M.A. 1748 (? died chaplain of Christ Church 1773, as Peglar).

Pegus, Frederick Edward, s. Peter, of Greenwich, Kent, gent. , matric. 25 June, 1817, aged 18; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, died curate of Little Missenden, Bucks, 27 March, 1848. See Robinson, 191.
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Peil, John Alexander, o.s. John, of Liverpool, gent. , matric. 17 Oct., 1877, aged 18; exhibitioner 1877-81, B.A. 1881.

Peile, (Sir) James Braithwaite, 2s. Thomas Williamson, of Liverpool,, matric. 17 June, 1851, aged 18; scholar 1851-5, B.A. 1855, M.A. 1868, member of council of Governor of Bombay 1882, C.S.I. 29 July, 1879, K.C.S.I. in 1887.

Peile, James Hamilton Francis, 1s. James Braithwaite, of Gogha, East Indies, arm. (after ). , matric. 19 Oct., 1882, aged 19; scholar 1882-6, B.A. 1886.

Peile, Walter Octavius, 7s. Thomas Williamson, of Repton, co. Derby,, matric. 19 Oct., 1863, aged 19; demy 1863-8, B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870, vicar of St. Paul's, South Hampstead, 1873-6, rector of Markshall, Essex, 1877-84, chaplain Bromley College 1884. See Rugby School Reg.

Peirce, Aaron, s. Aaron, of High Wickham, Bucks, pleb. , matric. 23 Nov., 1726, aged 19; B.A. 1735.
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Peirce, John, 'tonsor;' 24 April, 1719.

Peirce, John, 1s. John, of Lambourne, Berks, gent. , matric. 16 Oct., 1886, aged 18.

Peirse, Rev. Windham de la Poer Beresford-, 5s. Henry William de la Poer, of Bedale, Yorks, arm. , matric. 1 May, 1878, aged 19; B.A. 1881, M.A. 1884. See Foster's Baronetage & Eton School Lists.

Peirson, Peter, s. Edward, of St. Dunstan's West, London, Middlesex, gent. , matric. 24 March, 1728-9, aged 17; father of Peter, bencher of the Inner Temple 1800.

Peisley, Anthony, 'bookseller;' privilegiatus 17 Dec., 1724.
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Peisley, Bartholomew, s. Bartholomew, of Oxford (city), gent. , matric. 9 April, 1739, aged 16; B.A. 1742, M.A. 1745, B.D. 1755, D.D. 1760, died senior fellow 18 April, 1781.

Pelham, Augustus Thursby, 2s. Henry, of Penn, co. Stafford, cler. , matric. 14 May, 1851, aged 18; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858, perp. curate Clee St. Margaret 1860-4, rector of Cound, Salop, 1864.

Pelham, Charles Anderson, created D.C.L. 4 July, 1793, then of Brocklesby, co. Lincoln (son of Francis Anderson, of Manby, co. Lincoln); assumed the additional name of Pelham, M.P. Beverley 1768-74, Lincolnshire 1774-94, recorder of Grimsby 1786, created Baron Yarborough 13 Aug., 1794, died 22 Sep., 1823. See Foster's Peerage.

Pelham, Henry Francis, 1s. John Thomas, bishop of Norwich. , matric. 22 April, 1865, aged 18, scholar 1865-9; fellow 1869-73 & 1882, B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872, classical lecturer 1860 & 1873-82, tutor 1882, proctor 1879, reader in ancient history 1887, etc. See Foster's Peerage, ; & Boase, 142.

Pelham, Henry Thursby, 2s. George Augustus Thursby, of Cound, Salop, cler. , matric. 27 April, 1818, aged 17; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, of Cound Hall, Salop, assumed the additional name of in 1852, rector of Isham (inferior portion) 1825-39, and of Cound 1839-64, died 19 Dec., 1878.
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Pelham, Rev. Herbert, 4s. John Thomas, bishop of Norwich. , matric. 17 Oct., 1874, aged 19; B.A. 1878, died 30 May, 1881.
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The Cat on the Dovrefell

 * "The Cat on the Dovrefell", Popular Tales from the Norse. 1912.
 * "The Cat on the Dovrefell", East of the sun and west of the moon; old tales from the North. 1922.

title: The Cat on the Dovrefell


text: Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Peel, Edward Lennox


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 Henry Clarke, Esq. Lecturer on Anatomy, Bristol. John Conolly, M. D. Warwick; late Professor of Medicine in the London University. William Conolly, M. D. Cheltenham. Andrew Crawford, M. D. Physician to the Winchester Hospital. John Darwall, M. D. Physician to the Birmingham General Hospital. A. W. Davis, M. D. Presteign. James Dawson, Esq. Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary. Lewis Evans, M. D. Physician to the Norwich Hospital. Thomas Evans, jun. M. D. Physician to the Ross Dispensary. John Forbes, M. D., F. R. S. Physician to the Infirmary, Chichester. Thos. Fowke, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary, Wolverhampton. Hen. Hawes Fox, M. D. Bristol; late Physician to the Bristol Infirmary. Francis Franklin, M. D. Leamington, Warwickshire. George Goldie, M. D. Shrewsbury; late Physician to the York Hospital. John Griffiths, Esq. Surgeon to the Infirmary, Hereford. Richard Francis George, Esq. Surgeon to the Bath Hospital. George Edmund Hay, Esq. Surgeon, Bath. Christopher H. Hebb, Esq. Surgeon, Worcester. Wm. Charles Henry, M. D. Physician to the Infirmary, Manchester. William Hetling, Esq. Clifton, Bristol; Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary, and Lecturer on Surgery. Wm. Hey, Esq. Surgeon, Leeds. Thos. Hiron, Esq. Surgeon, Warwick. Joseph Hodgson, Esq. Surgeon to the General Hospital, Birmingham. J. H. James, Esq. Surgeon to the Exeter Hospital. Egerton A. Jennings, Esq. F. L. S. Surgeon to the Leamington Charitable Bathing Institution, &c. Thos. Jeffreys, M. D. Liverpool. John Johnstone, M, D., F. R. S. Physician to the General Hospital, Birmingham. George Johnston, M. D. Berwick; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Richard Phillips Jones, M. D. Physician to the Denbighshire General Dispensary and Asylum for the Recovery of Health, Denbigh.


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 THE

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

PROVINCIAL

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

ASSOCIATION.

VOLUME I.

LONDON: SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER;

AND

DEIGHTON, WORCESTER.

MDCCCXXXIII.


text: Popular Tales from the Norse/The Cock and Hen


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 WORCESTER: PRINTED BY H. B. TYMBS AND H. DEIGHTON, JOURNAL OFFICE.


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 J. Kidd, M. D., F. R. S. Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Oxford. Wm. Kerr. M. D. Physician to the Northampton Infirmary. J. Arnold Knight, M. D. Physician to the Infirmary, Sheffield. G. H. Lyford, Esq. Surgeon to the Winchester Hospital. James Mc Cabe, M. D. Physician to the Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, Cheltenham. Jonas Malden, M. D. Senior Physician to the Worcester Infirmary. William F. Morgan, Esq. House Surgeon and Apothecary to the Bristol Infirmary. William Mortimer, Esq. Surgeon, Clifton, Bristol. James Nash, M. D. Physician to the Worcester Infirmary. Matthew Pierpoint, Esq. Surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary. John Rayment, Esq. Worcester. Henry Riley, M. D. Bristol; Senior Physician to St. Peter's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy. Archibald Robertson, M. D. Physician to the Northampton Infirmary. John Rutter, M. D. Liverpool. Charles Seager, Esq. Surgeon, Cheltenham. Richard Smith, Esq. Bristol; Senior Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary. John Smith Soden, Esq. Surgeon to the Bath United Hospital, to the Bath Eye Infirmary, and to the Bath Penitentiary. Robert I. N. Streeten, M. D. Physician to the Worcester Dispensary. Wm. Thackeray, M. D. Chester. Fred. Thackeray, M. D. Cambridge. C. Turner Thackrah, Esq. Surgeon, Leeds. Thomas Thomson, M. D. Physician to the Stratford Dispensary. T. J. Todd, M. D. Physician to the Dispensary, Brighton. T. S. Traill, M. D. late of Liverpool; now Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh. Wm. Tuckwell, Esq. Surgeon to the Oxford Infirmary. Thomas Turner, Esq. Surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, &c. &c. J. K. Walker, M. D. Physician to the Huddersfield Infirmary. George Wallis, M. D. Bristol; Physician to the Bristol Infirmary, and Lecturer on Anatomy. Thomas Ogier Ward, M. B. Oxon; Physician to the Wolverhampton Dispensary. James Woodman, M. D. Bath.


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MEMBERS.

Win. Addison, Esq. F. L. S. Surgeon to H. R. H. the Duchess of Kent, Malvern.

Thomas Agg-, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, Cheltenham.

R. H. Alexander, Esq. Surgeon, Corsham, Wilts.

Henry Alford, Esq. Senior Surgeon to the Taunton and Somerset Hospital.

James AUardyce, M. D. Physician to the Cheltenham Dispensary and Casualty Hospital.

Charles Anthony, Esq. Surgeon, Clifton, Bristol.

J. G. Appleton, Esq. Surgeon, Evesham.

Robert Arrowsmith, M. D. Physician to the Coventry Dispensary.

Baddeley, Esq. Surgeon, Dudley.

Charles Bailey, Esq. Surgeon, Chippenham, Wilts.

James L. Bardsley, M. D. Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, Fever Wards, Lunatic Hospital and Asylum, Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Physic, Materia Medica, and Medical Botany, &c. &c.

Edward Barlow, M. D. Physician to the Bath United Hospital.

Richard Barnet, Esq. Surgeon, Stourport.

John Baron, M. D., F. R. S. Physician to the Gloucester Infirmary.

Samuel Bartlett, Esq. Surgeon, Birmingham.

Thos. Batt, Esq. Surgeon, late Surgeon Royal Fusileers, Brecon.

F. C. Batt, Esq. Surgeon, Abergavenny.

J. R. Beddome, Esq. Surgeon, Romsey, Hants.

Charles E. Bernard, M. D. Clifton, Bristol.

R. W. Bernard, M. D. Cheltenham.

Robert Bevan, M. D. Physician to the Dispensary, Monmouth.

George Gwynne Bird, Esq. Surgeon to the Swansea Infirmary.

Wm. Bealey, M. D. Physician to the Bath United Hospital.

James Bisdee, Esq. Surgeon, Westown, Somersetshire.

J. Blackall, M. D. Physician to the Devon and Exeter Hospital.

Edward Blackmore, M. D. Bath.

William Blenkinsop, Esq. Surgeon, Warwick.

William Bodington, Esq. Surgeon, Kenilworth.

Geo. G. Bompass, M. D. Fishponds, near Bristol.

Henry C. Boisragon, M. D. Cheltenham.

John Booth, M. D. Physician to the General Hospital, Birmingham.

Thomas Bradley, Esq. Surgeon, Kidderminster.


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 Joseph Pilkington Brandreth, M. D. Senior Physician to the Liverpool Infirmary.

William Brewer, Esq. Surgeon, Newport, Monmouthshire.

Wm. Perrin Brodribb, Esq. Surgeon, Warminster, Wilts.

Joseph Brown, M. D. Physician to the Sunderland and Bishop Wearmouth Infirmary.

Thomas Burman, Esq. Surgeon, Henley-in-Arden.

Samuel Bucknill, Esq. Surgeon, Rugby.

John Burnall, Esq. Surgeon to the Infirmary, Chichester.

Richard Bythell, Esq. Surgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, St. Asaph.

Henry Capel, Esq. Surgeon, Cheltenham.

Thomas Carden, Esq. Surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary.

Henry Carden, Esq. Surgeon to the Gloucester Dispensary.

Andrew Carrick, M. D. Clifton, Bristol; Senior Physician to the Bristol Infirmary.

Thomas Chevasse, Esq. Surgeon, Birmingham.

William Church, Esq. Surgeon; Consulting Accoucheur to the Charitable Society for the Relief of Lying-in Women, Bath.

Henry Clarke, Esq. Lecturer on Anatomy, Bristol.

W. 0. Cleave, Esq. Surgeon, Clifton, Bristol.

William James Clement, Esq. Surgeon, Shrewsbury.

William Colborne, Esq. Surgeon, Chippenham, Wilts.

James Cole, Esq. Surgeon, Bewdley.

R. W. Coley, M. D. Surgeon, R. N. late Physician and Surgeon of a Naval Hospital in India, Cheltenham.

J. M. Coley, Esq. Surgeon, Bridgenorth.

Chas. Cooke, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary, Bromyard.

John Conolly, M. D. Warwick; late Professor of Medicine in the London University.

William Conolly, M. D. Cheltenham.

T. Beale Cooper, M. D. Evesham.

Robert Corbin, Esq. Surgeon, Clifton, Bristol.

John Corrie, M. D. Birmingham.

Wm. Sands Cox, Esq. Surgeon, and Lecturer on Anatomy, Birmingham.

Joseph Crane, Esq. Surgeon, Kidderminster.

Andrew Crawford, M. D. Physician to the Winchester Hospital.

Stewart Crawford, M. D. Bath.


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Henry Daniel, Esq. Clifton, Bristol, Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary.

John Darwall, M. D. Physician to the Birmingham General Hospital.

C. G. B. Daubeny, M. D. Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford.

Birt Davies, M. D. Birmingham, Lecturer on Forensic Medicine, Physician to the Fever Hospital, and to the General Dispensary.

Francis Davies, Esq. Surgeon, Pershore.

David Davis, M. D. Bristol; Senior Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital.

Thos. Davis, Esq. Surgeon, Upton-on-Severn.

A. W. Davis, M. D. Presteign.

James Dawson, Esq. Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary.

Ed. E. Day, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol; Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital.

Paris Dick, M. D. Castle Cary, Somersetshire.

David James Hamilton Dickson, M. D., F. R. S., Ed. L. S., Physician to the Royal Hospital, Plymouth.

A. T. S. Dodd, Esq. Surgeon to the Infirmary, Chichester.

John Bishop Estlin, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol. Lewis Evans, M. D. Physician to the Norwich Hospital. Thomas Evans, jun. M. D. Physician to the Ross Dispensary. John Evans, Esq. Surgeon, Chepstow, Monmouthshire.

Eve, M. D. Senior Physician to the Taunton and Somerset

Hospital.

Wm. Falls, Esq. Surgeon, Hotwells, Bristol.

John James Feild, M. D. Worcester.

George Fewster, Esq. Surgeon, Thornbury, Gloucestershire.

Farnham Flower, Esq. Surgeon, Chilcompton, Somersetshire.

W. H. Foote, M. D. Cheltenham.

John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S. Physician to the Infirmary, Chichester.

Thos. Fowke, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary, Wolverhampton.

John Fowke, Esq. Surgeon, Wolverhampton.

Charles Fowler, Esq. Surgeon to the Cheltenham Dispensary and

Casualty Hospital. Henry Hawes Fox, M. D. Bristol; late Physician to the Bristol

Infirmary. Edward Long Fox, M. D. Brislington House, near Bristol. Charles Joseph Fox, M. D. Brislington House, near Bristol. Francis Ker Fox, M. D. Brislington House, near Bristol.


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Francis Franklin, M. D. Leamington, Warwickshire. James Fryer, Esq. Bewdley.

Gapper, M. D. Bridgewater, Somersetshire.

Wm. Bennett Garlike, M. D. Great Malvern.

Edward Gee, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol.

Richard Francis George, Esq. Surgeon to the Bath Hospital.

William Gill, Esq. Surgeon, Wolverhampton.

Daniel Gingell, M. D. Thornbury, Gloucestershire.

George Goldie, M. D. Shrewsbury; late Physician to the York

Hospital. Thomas Green, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol.

Greville, M. D. Bath.

John Griffiths, Esq. Surgeon to the Infirmary, Hereford.

Thomas Griffiths, M. D. Bristol.

T. Griffiths, Esq. Surgeon, Wrexham, Denbighshire.

Edward Halse, Esq. Surgeon, Hotwells, Bristol.

George Harrison, Esq. Surgeon, Chester.

Charles Hastings, M. D. Physician to the Worcester Infirmary.

George Edmund Hay, Esq. Surgeon, Bath.

John Haynes, Esq. Surgeon, Evesham.

Christopher H. Hebb, Esq. Surgeon, Worcester.

Wm. Charles Henry, M. D. Physician to the Infirmary, Manchester.

William Hetling, Esq. Clifton, Bristol; Surgeon to the Bristol

Infirmary, and Lecturer on Surgery. William Hey, Esq. Surgeon, Leeds. Richard Hill, Esq. Surgeon, Worcester. Josiah Hill, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol. Thomas Hiron, Esq. Surgeon, Warwick. Joseph Hodgson, Esq. Surgeon to the General Hospital, Bir

mingham. James Holbrook, M. D. Monmouth.

Charles Hooper, Esq. Surgeon, Kempsey, Worcestershire. William Hopkinson, Esq. M. D. Stamford. John Horton, Esq. Surgeon, Bromsgrove. Richard Horton, Esq. Surgeon, Sutton. James Hughes, Esq. Surgeon to the Denbighshire Militia. James Hulstone, Esq. Surgeon, Worcester. James Hurd, Esq. Surgeon, Yatton, Somersetshire.


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J. Ingleby, Esq. Surgeon, Birmingham, Lecturer on Midwifery, &c.

J. W. Izod, Esq. Surgeon, Evesham.

James Jaggard, Esq. Surgeon, Warwick.

J. H. James, Esq. Surgeon to the Exeter Hospital.

Thomas James, Esq. Surgeon, Wrington, Somersetshire.

Thomas Jeffreys, M. D. Liverpool.

Egerton A. Jennings, Esq. F. L. S. Surgeon to the Leamington

Charitable Bathing Institution, &c. Henry Jephson, M. D. Leamington. Edward Johnstone, M. D. (President) Birmingham. John Johnstone, M. D., F. R. S. Physician to the General Hospital,

Birmingham. James Johnstone, M. D. Birmingham, Lecturer on Materia Medica

and Therapeutics. George Johnston, M. D. Berwick, Fellow of the Royal College of

Surgeons. John Jones, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary, Kidderminster. Thomas Jones, Esq. Surgeon; Licentiate of the Apothecaries*

Company, Ruthvin. George Jones, Esq. Surgeon, Alcester. Richard Phillips Jones, M. D. Physician to the Denbighshire

General Dispensary and Asylum for the Recovery of Health,

Denbigh. W. G. Jotham, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary, Kidderminster. Richard Jukes, Esq. Surgeon, Stourport. A. Jukes, Esq. Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital.

Wm. Kaye, M. D. Cheltenham. Joseph J. Kelson, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol. Wm. Kerr, M. D. Physician to the Northampton Infirmary. J. Kidd, M. D., F. R. S. Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Oxford. John Kilvert, Esq. Surgeon, Bath. John King, Esq. Surgeon, Clifton, Bristol. J. Arnold Knight, M. D. Physician to the Infirmary, Sheffield.

Joseph G. Lansdowne, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol.

Robert Lax, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol,

John Latham, Esq. Surgeon, Wavertree, near Liverpool.

Walter Leach, Esq. Surgeon, Chilcorapton, Somersetshire.

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 Paul Leman, Esq. Surgeon, Sodbnry, Gloucestershire.

Isaac Leonard, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol.

James Lewis, Esq. Surgeon, Hanley, near Upton-on-Severn.

Thomas Lingen, Esq. Surgeon, Stourport.

Charles London, M. D. Leamington.

Septimus S. Lowe, Esq. Surgeon, Stratford-on-Avon.

Thomas Lloyd, M. D. Physician to the Dispensary, Ludlow.

Thomas Lukis, Esq. Surgeon, Kidderminster.

Gilbert Lyon, M. D. Physician to St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol.

G. H. Lyford, Esq. Surgeon to the Winchester Hospital.

James Mc Cabe, M. D. Physician to the Dispensary arid Casualty

Hospital, Cheltenham. G. A. Macauley, Esq. Surgeon, Knighton, Radnorshire. Joseph Mc Corragher, M. D. Physician to the Infirmary, Chichester. Jonas Maiden, M. D. Senior Physician to the Worcester Infirmary. George Mantell, Esq. Surgeon, Farringdon, Berkshire. Philip Marshall, Esq. Surgeon, Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire. James Mash, Esq. House Surgeon to the Northampton Infirmary. Charles Mayberry, Esq. Surgeon, Cheltenham. Edward T. Meredith, Esq. Surgeon, Presteign. Richard Middlemore, Esq. Assistant Surgeon to the Birmingham

Eye Infirmary. William Middleton, M. D. Leamington. William F. Morgan, Esq. House Surgeon and Apothecary to the

Bristol Infirmary. William Mortimer, Esq. Surgeon, Clifton, Bristol. Henry Moreton, Esq. Surgeon, Sodbury, Gloucestershire. Edward Morris, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary, Worcester. Charles Mules, Esq. Surgeon, Ilminster, Somerset. S. H. Murley, Esq. Surgeon, Cheltenham.

Nankivel, Esq. Surgeon, Coventry.

James Nash, M. D. Physician to the Worcester Infirmary. George Norman, Esq. Surgeon to the Bath United Hospital.

John Ormond, Esq. Surgeon, Bath.

Parsley, Esq. Surgeon, Worle, Somersetshire.

George Parsons, Esq. Surgeon, Birmingham.


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James P. Sheppard, Esq. Senior Surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary.

Richard Short, Esq. Surgeon, Solihull, Warwickshire.

Charles Smerdon, Esq. Surgeon, Clifton, Bristol.

Richard Smith, Esq. Bristol; Senior Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary,

Nathaniel Smith, Esq. Bristol; Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary.

Thomas Smith, Esq. Surgeon, Evesham.

Henry L. Smith, Esq. Surgeon, Southam.

John Smith Soden, Esq. Surgeon to the Bath United Hospital, to the Bath Eye Infirmary, and to the Bath Penitentiary.

E. A. Spilsbury, Esq. Surgeon, Walsall.

George Spry, Esq. Surgeon, Bath.

William Squires, M. D. Liverpool.

Hugh Standert, Esq. Taunton; late Surgeon to the Taunton and Somerset Hospital.

Thomas Steel, Esq. Surgeon, Abergavenny.

William Steel, Esq. Surgeon, Abergavenny.

Thomas Stephenson, Esq. Surgeon, Worcester.

Frederick D. Stephenson, Esq. Surgeon, Worcester.

John B. Steward, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, Lunatic Asylum, Droitwich.

Robert I. N. Streeten, M.D. Physician to the Worcester Dispensary.

Thomas Stockwell, Esq. Surgeon, Bath.

Charles Starkey, Esq. Surgeon, West Bromwich, Staffordshire.

Richard Strong, Esq. Surgeon, North Petherton, Somersetshire.

Sully, M. D. Oakhills, near Taunton, Somersetshire.

John C. Swayne, Esq. Surgeon, Bristol.

J. A. Symonds, M. D. Physician to the General Hospital, Bristol.

William Terry, Esq. Surgeon to the Northampton Infirmary.

Wm. Thackeray, M. D. Chester.

Fred. Thackeray, M. D. Cambridge.

C. Turner Thackrah, Esq. Surgeon, Leeds.

Joseph Thomas, Esq. Worcester; Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.

Charles Thompson, Esq. Surgeon, Ross.

Thomas Thomson, M. D. Physician to the Stratford Dispensary.

Thomas Thursfield, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary, Kidderminster.

William Thursfield, Esq. Surgeon, Bridgenorth.

Todderick, M. D. Bath; Hon. Fellow of King and Queen's

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T. J. Todd, M. D. Physician to the Dispensary, Brighton.

Jonathan Toogood, Esq. Senior Surgeon to the Bridgewater Infirmary.

Harry Tracey, Esq. Surgeon, Plymouth.

T. S. Traill, M. D. late of Liverpool, now Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh.

William Trevor, Esq. Surgeon, Bridgewater.

William Tuckwell, Esq. Surgeon to the Oxford Infirmary.

William Tudor, Esq. Surgeon to the Bath Hospital.

William Key Tunnicliff, Esq. Surgeon, Tewkesbury.

Thomas Turner, Esq. Surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery.

George Waldron, Esq. Surgeon, Bath.

J. K. Walker, M. D. Physician to the Huddersfield Infirmary.

George Wallis, M. D. Bristol; Physician to the Bristol Infirmary, and Lecturer on Anatomy.

Thomas Ogier Ward, M. B. Oxon; Physician to the Wolverhampton Dispensary.

Henry Ward, Esq. Surgeon, Ross.

Kenrick Watson, Esq. Surgeon, Stourport.

William D. Watson, Esq. Surgeon, Warwick.

Charles Webb, Esq. Surgeon, Oxford.

John Webb, Esq. Surgeon, Alcester.

Edward Welchman, Esq. Surgeon, Kineton, Warwickshire.

A. Wheeler, Esq. Surgeon, Worcester.

James Whicher, Esq. Surgeon, Petersfield.

Joseph Wichenden, Esq. Surgeon, Birmingham.

John C. Wickhara, Esq. Surgeon, Didmarton, Gloucestershire.

James Williams, Esq. Martin, near Worcester,

John Williams, Esq. Surgeon, Bewdley.

Owen W. Williams, Esq. Surgeon, Leamington.

Williams, Esq. Surgeon, South Brent, Somersetshire.

David Williams, M. D. Physician to the North Dispensary, Liverpool.

Edra. W. Wilmore, Esq. Surgeon to the Dispensary, Worcester.

John Grant Wilson, Esq. Surgeon to the General Hospital, Bristol.

James Wood, Esq. Surgeon, Tewkesbury.

George Leighton Wood, Esq. Surgeon, Bath.

J. Woodforde, M. D. Wells.


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 James Woodman, M. D. Bath.

William Woodward, Esq. Surgeon, Pershore.

John Wootton, M. D. Physician to the Infirmary, Oxford.

Samuel Wolstenholme, Esq. Surgeon to the Holywell Dispensary,

Flintshire. George Wolstenholme, Esq. Surgeon, Bolton, Lancashire. Thomas Wynter, Esq. Surgeon, West Bromwich. J. C. Yeatman, Esq. Surgeon, Froome, Somersetshire. James Yonge, M. D. Plymouth; Fellow of the Royal College of

Physicians.

Gentlemen wishing to join the Association, are respectfully requested to apply to some Member of the Council in their immediate district; or to Dr. Hastings, or J. P. Sheppard, Esq. the Secretaries, Worcester.


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UPON THE RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE

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THE MIND AND BODY OF MAN,

IN HEALTH AND DISEASE.

BY JONAS MALDEN, M. D.

Senior Physician to the Worcester General Infirmary.

1 o how great an extent the preservation of health and the cure of disease may depend upon the proper management of the mind, has not, I think, been sufficiently insisted upon by medical writers. The consideration of the reciprocal influence of the mind and body of man, both in health and disease, and an induction of particulars relating to this subject, so as to establish some general laws, and to lead to some practical results, would, I think, be a labour of great utility.

The physiology of the human mind, studied and elucidated by a practical physician, would be inquired into, and treated, very differently, to the manner in which the same subject has been discussed by purely metaphysical writers.

Abstract meta physicians, in treating of the intellectual powers, disjoin, in a manner, the laws of body and mind, as if they were not, in nature, in-


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 Brawardine and the holy example of the royal chaplain. After the battles of Cressy and Neville's Cross he was appointed one of the commissioners to treat of peace with King Philip.

Archbishop Stratford died 23 Aug. 1348, and the chapter of Canterbury, thinking to anticipate the wishes of the king, elected Bradwardine to the vacant see without waiting for the congé d'élire. The king, however, was offended by the irregularity, and requested the pope to set aside the election and appoint John of Ufford by provision. The appointment was merely a device in order to vindicate his own right of nomination, which had been infringed by the premature action of the chapter; for John of Ufford was aged and paralytic, and died of the plague before his consecration.

After the death of John of Ufford the chapter applied for the congé d'élire, which was sent with the recommendation to elect Bradwardine. The pope, Clement VI, also issued a bull in which he affected to supersede the election of the chapter, and appointed Thomas by provision. Bradwardine was on the continent at the time of his election, and repaired without delay to the papal court at Avignon for consecration, which took place 19 July 1349. The pope was so completely in the power of Edward at this time that he had once bitterly remarked, if the King of England were to ask him to make a bishop of a jackass, he could not refuse. The cardinals had resented the saying, and one of them, Hugo, cardinal of Tudela, a kinsman of the pope, had the ill taste to make the consecration of Bradwardine an occasion for indulging their spleen. In the midst of the banquet given by the pope, the doors of the hall being suddenly thrown open a clown entered seated upon a jackass and presented a humble petition that he might be made archbishop of Canterbury. Considering the European reputation of Bradwardine for learning and piety, the joke was remarkably unsuitable; the pope rebuked the offender, and the rest of the cardinals marked their displeasure by vying with one another in the respect which they paid to the new archbishop.

Although the Black Death was now raging in England, Bradwardine hastened thither. He landed at Dover on 19 Aug., did homage to the king at Eltham, and received the temporalities from him on the 22nd. Thence he went to London, and lodged at La Place, the residence of the Bishop of Rochester in Lambeth. On the morning after his arrival he had a feverish attack, which was attributed to fatigue after his journey, but in the evening tumours under the arms and other symptoms of the deadly plague which was then ravaging London made their appearance, and on the 26th the archbishop died. Notwithstanding the infectious nature of the disease, the body was removed to Canterbury and buried in the cathedral.

His works are:
 * 1) 'De Causâ Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum,' edited by Sir Henry Savile, London, 1618.
 * 2) 'Tractatus de proportionibus,' Paris, 1495.
 * 3) 'De quadraturâ, circuli,' Paris, 1495.
 * 4) 'Arithmetica speculativa,' Paris, 1502.
 * 5) 'Geometria speculativa,' Paris, 1530.
 * 6) 'Ars Memorativa,' manuscript in the Sloane collection, British Museum, No. 3744. This last is an attempt at a plan for aiding the memory by the method of mentally associating certain places with certain ideas or subjects, or the several parts of a discourse.

 BRADY, ANTONIO (1811–1881), admiralty official, was born at Deptford on 10 Nov. 1811, being the eldest son of Anthony Brady of the Deptford victualling yard, then storekeeper at the Royal William victualling yard, Plymouth, by his marriage, on 20 Dec. 1810, with Marianne, daughter of Francis Perigal and Mary Ogier. He was educated at Colfe's school, Lewisham, and then entered the civil service as a junior clerk in the Victoria victualling yard, Deptford, on 29 Nov. 1828, and, having served there and at Plymouth and Portsmouth, was, through the recommendation of Sir James Graham, promoted to headquarters at Somerset House as a second-class clerk in the accountant-general's office on 26 June 1844. He was gradually promoted until in 1864 he became registrar of contracts, and having subsequently assisted very materially in reorganising the office, he was made the first superintendent of the admiralty new contract department on 13 April 1869, when an improved salary of 1,000l. a year was allotted to him. He held this appointment until 31 March 1870, when he retired on a special pension. He was knighted by the queen at Windsor on 23 June 1870.

After his retirement Sir Antonio devoted himself to social, educational, and religious reform. Having taken a great interest in the preservation of Epping Forest for the people, he was appointed a judge in the 'Verderer's court for the forest of Epping.' He was


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 associated with church work of all kinds. He published in 1869 'The Church's Works and its Hindrances, with suggestions for Church Reform.' The establishment of the Plaistow and Victoria Dock Mission, the East London Museum at Bethnal Green, and the West Ham and Stratford Dispensary was in a great measure due to him.

Brady was a member of the Ray, the Palæontographical, and Geological Societies. So long ago as 1844 his attention had been attracted to the wonderful deposits of brickearth which occupy the valley of the Roding at Ilford, within a mile of his residence. Encouraged by Professor Owen he commenced collecting the rich series of mammalian remains in the brickearths of the Thames valley, comprising amongst others the skeletons of the tiger, wolf, bear, elephant, rhinoceros, horse, elk, stag, bison, ox, hippopotamus, &c. This valuable collection of pleistocene mammalia is now in the British Museum of Natural History, Cromwell Road. In his 'Catalogue of Pleistocene Mammalia from Ilford, Essex,' 1874, printed for private circulation only, Brady acknowledges his indebtedness to Mr. William Davies, F.G.S., his instructor in the art of preserving fossil bones. He died suddenly at his residence, Maryland Point, Forest Lane, Stratford, on 12 Dec. 1881. He was buried in St. John's churchyard, Stratford, on 16 Dec. His marriage with Maria, eldest daughter of George Kilner of Ipswich, took place on 18 May 1837, and by her, who survived him, he left a son, the Rev. Nicholas Brady, rector of Wennington, Essex, and two daughters.

BRADY, JOHN (d. 1814), clerk in the victualling office, was the author of 'Clavis Calendaria; or a Compendious Analysis of the Calendar: illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical, and classical anecdotes,' 2 vols., London, 1812, 8vo; 3rd edit., 1815. The compiler also published an abridgment of the work, and some extracts from it appeared in 1826, under the title of 'The Credulity of our Forefathers.' This book, once very popular, has been long since superseded. Brady died at Kennington, Surrey, on 5 Dec. 1814. His son, John Henry Brady, arranged and adapted for publication 'Varieties of Literature; being principally selections from the portfolio of the late John Brady/ London, 1826, 8vo.

 BRADY, MAZIERE (1796–1871), lord chancellor of Ireland, born on 20 July 1796, was a great-grandson of the Rev., D.D. [q. v.], the psalmist, and the second son of Francis Tempest Brady, a gold and silver thread manufacturer in Dublin. In 1812 Brady entered Trinity College, Dublin; in 1814 he obtained a scholarship there, and twice carried off the vice-chancellor's prize for English verse. He proceeded B.A. (1816) and M.A. (1819), and was called to the Irish bar in Trinity term of 1819. In 1833, under the ministry of Earl Grey, he, as an avowed liberal, was appointed one of the commissioners to inquire into the state of the Irish municipal corporations. In 1837 he was made solicitor-general for Ireland, in succession to [q. v.], and became attorney-general in 1839. In the year following he was promoted to the bench as chief baron of the Court of Exchequer. He was raised to the bench of the Irish Court of Chancery, somewhat against his inclination, in 1846. He was lord chancellor of Ireland during the Russell administration, 1847-52. He became in 1850 the first vice-chancellor of the Queen's University, of the principles of which foundation Brady was a constant advocate. From 1853 to 1858 Brady was again lord chancellor of Ireland. He resumed the post once more in 1859, and held it through the second administrations of Lord Palmerston and Earl Russell until the overthrow of the latter in 1866. On 28 June of that year he sat for the last time in the Irish Court of Chancery. He retired amidst general regret. He was fond of scientific studies, especially geology. In 1869 he was created a baronet by Mr. Gladstone. He died at his residence in Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin, on Thursday, 13 April 1871. At the time of his death, besides holding the vice-chancellorship of the Queen's University, he was a member of the National Board of Education, and president of the Irish Art Union, and of the Academy of Music.

Brady was twice married: first, in 1823, to Eliza Anne, daughter of Bever Buchanan of Dublin, who died in 1858: and secondly to Mary, second daughter of the Right Hon. John Hatchell, P.C., of Fortfield House, co. Dublin. His first wife left him five children, by the eldest of whom, Francis William Brady, Q.C., he was succeeded in his title and estates.


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 WERDEN or WORDEN, ROBERT (d. 1690), soldier, was the son of John Werden (d. 1646), by his wife Katherine, daughter of Edward Dutton, governor of Barbados. On the eve of the civil war John was appointed a commissioner of array for Cheshire. He exerted his influence in support of the royal cause, and his son Robert was named colonel of a troop of horse under Sir John Byron, first baron Byron [q. v.] Robert distinguished himself by his activity. He took part in the defence of Chester, but was wounded and taken prisoner in a skirmish on 18 Jan. 1644–5. His father assisted in the negotiations for the surrender of the town, and signed the articles of surrender on 3 Feb. 1645–6. On 26 March he begged to be permitted to compound for his delinquency in being a commissioner of array, pleading that he had never acted against parliament, and that he had been active in the surrender of Chester. The commissioners for compounding were moved by his representations, and, although he had not come in within the prescribed term, they only imposed on him the small fine of 600l., ‘consideration being had of his great losses and kind offices to members of parliament.’ Their sentence was confirmed by the House of Commons on 9 July, Robert being included in the composition. On 21 July the county committee indignantly remonstrated, declaring Robert ‘a most violent enemy, administering general astonishment and terror to the whole country.’ They were, however, too late; the house declined to recede from its former decision, and as John had died about the close of 1646, Robert was finally cleared by a draft ordinance of the House of Lords on 12 Feb. 1646–7 (Journals of the House of Commons, iv. 611, 721; Journals of the House of Lords, ix. 5, 7). In 1648, however, his estates were again sequestered on the suspicion that he harboured treasonable designs, a fifth being allowed his wife for maintenance. On 27 Jan. 1651–2 they were discharged from sequestration, but in 1655 his fidelity was seen to be very doubtful (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1655, pp. 216, 220), and in 1659 he took part in the royalist rising under Sir George Booth (first Lord Delamer) [q. v.] He was proclaimed a traitor and a rebel on 9 Aug. (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1659–60, p. 94), and his goods sequestered on 27 Aug. A few days earlier he was taken and sent to London for examination (ib. pp. 154, 157, 160, 333). He succeeded in making his peace with the Commonwealth, probably at the expense of the royalists, for at the Restoration he was imprisoned on a charge of treason. Among other acts of treachery he was accused of betraying Booth and of endeavouring to secure the king's person after the battle of Worcester. Booth and other Lancashire gentlemen, however, befriended him, and he finally obtained his pardon, received back his estates, and in 1662 was made a groom of the Duke of York's bedchamber, and was granted the lands of Thomas Wogan [q. v.], the regicide, in Pembrokeshire (ib. 1660–1 p. 9, 1661–2 pp. 218, 459, 566, 1663–4 p. 157; Hist. MSS. Comm. 5th Rep. App. p. 156, 8th Rep. App. i. 278, 280). On 4 June 1665 he received the commission of lieutenant in the Duke of York's guards (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1664–5, pp. 407, 517), and in May 1667 he was named a commissioner for regulating the Duke of Norfolk's affairs (, Diary and Corresp. ed. Braybrooke, iv. 90). On 29 June 1667 he was appointed lieutenant and major in the Duke of York's guards (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1667, p. 245), and on 2 Oct. 1672 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel.

On 10 Feb. 1672–3 Werden was returned to parliament for Chester, retaining his seat until the dissolution in 1679. He was returned for the same city on 9 March 1684–1685 to the first parliament of James II. On 1 May 1678 he received the commission of brigadier of the horse, and in the summer served in Flanders against the Dutch. In 1679 he was appointed comptroller of the Duke of York's household. On the accession of James II he was promoted, on 19 June 1685, to the rank of ‘brigadier over all our forces,’ and on 31 July was appointed major-general. On 24 Oct. he received the command of the regiment of horse now known as the 4th dragoon guards, and on 8 Nov. 1688 attained the rank of lieutenant-general. On 15 Sept. of that year, when the borough of Chester was remodelled by James, he was appointed a common councillor (Hist. MSS. Comm. 8th Rep. App. i. 361).

Notwithstanding the many benefits he received from James, he deserted him in 1688, and was rewarded by the post of treasurer to Queen Mary. He died on 23 Jan. 1689–90. He was twice married: first, to Jane Backham; secondly, to Margaret Towse. By his first wife he had John [q. v.], who is separately noticed; Robert, a captain in the royal navy, who was killed fighting against the Dutch at Solebay on 28 May 1673, while in command of the Henrietta (ib. 10th Rep. App. vi. 182), and Katherine, married to Richard Watts of Muchmunden in Hertfordshire.

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 himself (in July 1740, in the schoolroom at Kingswood, near Bristol,, ii. 473) been the first to administer the communion to his followers, repelled from this rite at the Temple church, Bristol, he took alarm when the views of some lay preachers pointed to the severance of methodism from the church of England. The celebration of the eucharist by Charles Perronet [see under ], who had been his companion to Ireland, he denounced as a ‘vile example’ (Letter in, John Wesley, 1870, ii. 202). In the critical year 1755 he left abruptly the conference at Leeds, which, after three days' discussion of the question of separation from the church, decided (9 May) that, ‘whether it was lawful or not, it was no ways expedient.’ He attended the conference of 1756 (in August, at Bristol), but was not satisfied. Shortly afterwards he went on a mission to the north of England ‘to confirm the methodists in the church.’ After his return to Bristol on 6 Nov. 1756 he took no further part in the itinerant ministry. It is said that he refused a benefice worth 500l. a year, and declined a fortune proffered him by a lady who had quarrelled with her relatives (, 1825, ii. 372).

When methodist preachers began to take the benefit of the Toleration Act, he would have had them leave methodism for dissent. As an alternative, he offered to use all his interest to obtain their admission to Anglican orders. He writes (27 March 1760) to John Nelson: ‘Rather than see thee a dissenting minister, I wish to see thee smiling in thy coffin’ (, ii. 185). His health suffered; he was compelled in 1761 to retire from active duties to Bath. From 1762 the Wesleys diverged in their treatment of a point of doctrine. Both had preached ‘perfection;’ Charles now, in view of current fanatical claims, insisted on a gradual process, reaching a higher goal. No difference of opinion or of policy injured their mutual confidence or disturbed the frankness of their intercourse. Charles was always the champion of his brother's reputation, even when most suspicious of the aims of his followers.

In 1771 he removed with his family to London, occupying a leasehold house, 1 Chesterfield Street, Marylebone, which was given to him, furnished, for the remainder of the lease (over twenty years) by Mrs. Gumley. He preached in turn at the Foundery; after the opening (1 Nov. 1778) of City Road Chapel, he preached there twice every Sunday during church hours (contrary to his brother's custom), and reluctantly submitted to share this duty with others. His preaching powers were waning; occasionally, as of old, he could pour forth ‘a torrent of impetuous and commanding eloquence,’ but his usual delivery was subdued and slow, with frequent pauses (, Life and Times, 1873, p. 314), and his sermons were sometimes interrupted by intervals of singing (, ii. 433). He was assiduous in visiting condemned malefactors, including the notorious William Dodd [q. v.] To his brother's ordinations, which began in 1784, he was vehemently opposed; there seems no ground for Jackson's opinion that ‘he became less hostile’ to the measures, though resolved to have no breach with his brother, but to leave in his hands the conduct of methodism. In 1786 he first met William Wilberforce [q. v.] at the house of Hannah More [q. v.]

At the beginning of 1788 his strength entirely failed; by March he was unable to write. On his brother's advice he was attended by John Whitehead (1740?–1804) [q. v.] He died on 29 March 1788. Owing to the misdirection of a letter, the news did not reach his brother till 4 April, too late for attendance at the funeral. On 5 April he was buried, at his own express desire, in the churchyard of St. Marylebone, immediately behind the old church; the pall was borne by eight Anglican divines; the expenses of his funeral (13l. 16s. 6d.) were met by a private subscription (, John Wesley, iii. 225); a small obelisk marks his grave. In City Road Chapel (where he had declined burial, the ground being unconsecrated) is a marble tablet to his memory. His profile, with that of his brother, is on the tablet placed (1871) in Westminster Abbey on the initiative of Dean Stanley. His portrait (1771) by John Russell, in the Wesleyan Centenary Hall, has often been engraved. Another portrait (1784) is in Whitehead's ‘Life,’ engraved by J. Fittler, and again in Moore's ‘Life’ (1824), engraved by W. T. Fry. He was of low stature but not slight, near-sighted, and abrupt and even odd in manner. Always absent-minded, he could read and compose at his ease, oblivious of his company. Like his brother, he wrote Byrom's shorthand. His manuscripts were always models of neatness. In other respects his more methodical habits in later life were probably due to the influence of his wife (, J. Wesley, p. 410). In old age ‘he rode every day (clothed for winter even in summer) a little horse, grey with age’ (, 1825, ii. 369). Tender and sensitive, his family affections were strong; his warmth of temper never led him into angry heats; to his brother he looked up with a loving