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 "Yes," he continued, "'Old Ninety-Nine's' cave contained a rarer treasure than money and jewels in the form of a proven cure for this justly dreaded malady."

There is no sight more pathetic than a proud man humbled. Mr. Genung, with all his boastful pride of race and family, told that one in whose veins his own blood flowed was an outcast, unclean from this loathsome disease, a leper, while close upon this, conscience whispered, "What of the poor victim?" felt a compassion for his wayward brother's only child suffuse his whole being. Tears coursed down his rugged cheeks and utterly broken in spirit, he looked appealingly at Dr. Herschel while his whole frame shook as with ague.

Mr. De Vere sprang to his assistance and Dr. Herschel administered a restorative, bidding him lie down for a few minutes, and his order was obeyed with child-like confidence.

"Now," resumed the doctor, when the excitement had somewhat subsided, "my plan is this: to at once remove our young friend to Shushan—accommodations there