Chapter 14 No.14

"Now, by a two-headed Janus,

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."

Hardinge is hardly gone before another-a far heavier-step sounds in the passage outside the professor's door. It is followed by a knock, almost insolent in its loudness and sharpness.

"What a hole you do live in," says Sir Hastings, stepping into the room, and pi