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every nerve and tendon seemed cruelly wrenched apart.
Doctor Paulus Androcydes uttered a groan of agony,
while his earthly casket fell to the floor with a dull heavy
thud. Looking down, he saw lying there his former hu-
man habitation, its pallid face gazing upward; eyes
widely distended, and rapidly glazing; brows bathed in
a cold death damp, and muscles slowly contracting with
post-mortem rigidity.
" Come ! " commanded the voice of Athothis. " Time
is precious, and must not be wasted. Let us proceed to
investigate modern medicine. Come ! "
Doctor Paulus Androcydes found himself floating over
the city; and the moonlight was fading away in the west,
and the first rosy blush of dawn tinged the eastern sky.
