"Gordon, curse you, where is Gordon?"
Kathulos took a test-tube from the table, eyed it closely and emptied
it into another.
"Ah, my friend awakes," he murmured in his voice--the voice of a living
dead man.
He thrust his hands into his long sleeves and turned fully to me.
"I think in you," he said distinctly, "I have created a Frankenstein
monster. I made of you a superhuman creature to serve my wishes and
you broke from me. You are the bane of my might, worse than Gordon
even. You have killed valuable servants and interfered with my plans.
However, your evil comes to an end tonight. Your friend Gordon broke
away but he is being hunted through the tunnels and can not escape.
"You," he continued with the sincere interest of the scientist, "are a
most interesting subject. Your brain must be formed differently from
any other man that ever lived. I will make a close study of it and add
it to my laboratory. How a man, with the apparent need of the elixir in
his system, has managed to go on for two days still stimulated by the
last draft is more than I can understand."
My heart leaped. With all his wisdom, little Zuleika had tricked him
and he evidently did not know that she had filched a flask of the
life-giving stuff from him.
"The last draft you had from me," he went on, "was sufficient only
for some eight hours. I repeat, it has me puzzled. Can you offer any
suggestion?"