" "That is undoubtedly a fact," replied the investigator.

[Footnote 1: The principle to regard all order in the world (e.g., the shape of the earth, mountains, and seas, the members of animal bodies) as if it proceeded from the design of a supreme reason leads the investigator on to various discoveries.

"Heavens, Kirk!" cried the newcomer, as he leaped out, "has anything serious happened?" "To whom?" asked the investigator, quietly, his eyes fixed upon the young man's face.

Your common man has no conception of the zeal that animates a scientific investigator, the fury of contradiction you can arouse in him.

It would seem that lack of attention to chronology has misled investigators.

We have in our midst one such, the penetration of whose manifestations and phenomena is well calculated to baffle the most zealous investigator.

The wavering eye tried to fix the investigator, but failed signally.

At the other end was the desk of the librarian, who so helped young investigators that, when she helped, anything got found.

The names of Osborne and Stillman figured largely in the types; but what interested the investigator most was a portrait of the musicianthe violinist, Antonio Spatola, and the story of his arrest.

The extraordinary importance attached by Michelangelo in old age to the passions of his youth is almost sufficient to justify those psychological investigators who regard him as the subject of a nervous disorder.

Now, suppose instead of that scattered band of un-co-ordinated workers a great army of hundreds of thousands of well-paid men; suppose, for instance, the community had kept as many scientific and medical investigators as it has bookmakers and racing touts and men about townshould we not know a thousand times as much as we do about disease and health and strength and power?

" There was a different policeman at the door; but fortunately he knew the investigator and they were allowed to enter at once.

Cave had taken off the thing to the hospital hidden in the dog-fish sack, and there had pressed the young investigator to keep it for him.

"There are many institutions of the sort," proceeded the investigator.

Spiritualists constantly reproach investigators of Spiritualism with faint-heartedness and lack of patience; they allege that at the very first rebuff all investigating ardor cools, and that one failure is deemed sufficient to condemn a whole system.

" "A very nasty looking affair," returned the investigator.

A second volume that shows the investigator deep in another mystery, even more intricate and puzzling than this, is entitled "Ashton-Kirk and the Scarlet Scapular.

" "And further," smiled the investigator, "I recall that I expressed great admiration for Marryat's conception of a homicide in the matter of Smallbones and the hag.

Then, with his hand on the knob, he turned and added: "Why don't ye come in, me journalistic investigators, and see the fun for yerselves?

The invalid refused everything that was offered, no matter what its character; and Emma had to console herself with the thought that her intentions were good, and would have satisfied even so strict an investigator of motives as Mr. Knightley.

It was upon her initiative, likewise, at the convention in the following year, that the committee was formed to collect statistics of women's work, and in the year after (1886), it was again Miss Hannafin, the indefatigable, backed by the splendid force of sixteen women delegates, who succeeded in having Mrs. Barry appointed general investigator.

Some day, no doubt, there will arise an investigator who will reduce to order and catalogue the inchoate efforts of an infant to make itself understood by talking.

There are but few recorded cases of voluntary clairvoyance in the books of the investigatorsthe skilled clairvoyants, and more particularly the advanced occultists, avoid the investigators rather than seek them; they have no desire to be reported as "typical cases" of interesting psychic phenomenathey leave that to the amateurs, and those to whom the phenomena come as a wonderful revelation akin to a miracle.

The ancients had heard of the dwarfs, but the geographers of the eighteenth century expunged from the maps of Africa about all that the geographers of Greece and Rome, as well as those of later times, placed on them; and the nineteenth century was slow in crediting the early investigators even with statements that were wholly or approximately accurate.

[-7-] Sejanus was disturbed by all this, and a great deal more by the fact that from one of his statues at first a mass of smoke ascended in a burst, and then, when the head was taken off to enable investigators to see what was going on, a huge serpent darted up.