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sfutly' declared her host, with dig nity and assurance. "Listen, sir," went on Doris, earn estly, "Mr. Tyler is not the desper ate criminal the world adjudges him. He is reckless, he is tempted, but he has been plundered, crushed down, in poverty until he believes all man kind his enemy, but I ah, yes, I know him. At heart he is a hero, a martyr!" The professor regarded the soulful eyes of. this fair pleader curiously. There "was no mistaking her sincer ity. "You are his relative a sister, per haps?" he ventured. "No, sir, I am that is, I love him!" confessed Doris. "Thief as he is, un der a long- sentence, I would marry him tomorrow were hefree. I, like himself, am an orphan, and like him, I have tasted the bitter dregs' of pov erty. He risked his life to save me from a burning building. As might the highest gentleman in the land, secretly, nobly he saw that I was cared for when I was ill. He- loves, me; I know it, but he would refuse to let me share his disgrace, to be come the wife of a convicted' thief. Oh,, sir, save him!" pleaded 'the girl pathetically, bursting into tears. -''If you could do that, we would go away to some place where we .are hot known, and I would slave for him, to make him once more a man among men." "My poor child!" spoke the pro fessor brokenly, placing, a trembling hand upon the bowed golden head, "for your sake I will exhaust all my science in trying to save this man's body and sotii." And so the honest enthusiast had his chance. For a week Robert Ty ler lay under his care. The surgical operation applied to the cranium, current -with a vigorous medical treatment. At the end of ten days the professor announced that the test had been completed and Tyler was a free man. The newspapers were full- of the experiment. The'-professor- proudly hoped, and Doris prayed, and that very night the professor discovered that before he had left his home Rob ert Tyler had burglarized one of his cabinets, and had disappeared with two watches and a small amqunt of money. Gradually the incident of Robert. Tyler and the professor's great curar tive system faded from public view Two years later the- professor re ceived a package addressed in delicate- feminine- handwriting, .contain ing4 a sumiof money-equivalent wbis losses through the, burglary. Three yeara after , that Professor Woods; in.a. westenrtrip, passed .Sun day at a thriving little. town Jn?,the heart of 'the "Rocky "mounj&ins. Strolling about casually in the aiter noqn, he came .upon, an open airser vice -meeting. The preacher tafeed from. au improvised platfprjn near which was seated a lovely, peaceful faced lady with a. .child in her arms, evidently the-wife.of the speaker. Such rugged yet earnest eloquence Professor Woods had never before heard. And: then he stared marvel ously as he; recognized the man as Robert Tyler and the womaii he had known as Doris Hemingway: His surprise was heightened, as at the end of the meeting the speaker looked directly at him with the words: "Will Mr. Woods, please remain for a few moments' conversation?" Professor Woods advanced to meet the exhorter as the audience dis persed. As he neared him he traced the old familiar lineaments of that expressive face, but toned down, sof- tened, the eyes clear, thoughtful, sin cere'. "Do you remember me?y spoke Tyler, extending an eager hand. "I can never forget you," replied the friendly hearted pfofesson"!''liy first and last experiment in anatom ical reformation ened with you." "And cured me, sir," pronounced Robert Tyler, gravely. Perhapsv not