"Why Look he's dead, doctor " I gasped, standing aghast. The sudden change in the thin sallow face, the lack of expression in the brilliant eyes, and the dropping of the jaw were sufficient to convince me that the stranger's life had ebbed away. The doctor bent, placed his hand upon the prostrate man's breast for a moment, and then, straightening himself, he turned to me and answered gravely: - "Yes, Godfrey; it is as I feared from the first. Nothing could save him. Remember what I told you this morning-it was simply a matter of hours."