Dr Nikola’s Experiment

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Guy Boothby

Dr Nikola’s Experiment

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He had taken a book from the shelf, and was holding it tenderly in his hand. I recognised it as one of several volumes of a sixteenth-century work on Surgery that I had chanced upon on a bookstall in Holywell Street some months before. Its age and date had interested me, and I had bought it more out of curiosity than for any other reason. Kelleran, however, could scarcely withdraw his eyes from it.

“It’s the very thing I’ve been wanting to make my set complete,” he cried, when I had described my discovery of it. “Perhaps you don’t know it, but I’m a perfect lunatic on the subject of old books. My own rooms, where, by the by, you have never been, are crammed from floor to ceiling, and still I go on buying. Let me see what else you have.”

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