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 "By Jove! That must be the reason they were tipping him the other day; I wondered what they were up to at the time." "H'm-m," still more thoughtfully; "how could they smuggle in a corpse?" Jeremiah asked.

"Oh, easy enough. The professor is always getting in dead animals from circuses and zoölogical gardens to cut up. They could box up a human body as if it were some of the professor's things, I suppose. But I don't say they have got one; all I know is what I told you I had overheard them say, about a fresh grave down there in that old cemetery this side of Lawrenceville, and how much fun it would be to do a little dissecting."

"And you say that your roommate won't tell you where he goes every night?"

"Won't say a word about it, and there's been a light in the top floor of the laboratory every night this week! Do you really suppose they have got a stiff up there, Jere?" the caller asked with something akin to excitement.