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"You do?" she exclaimed eagerly. "Well, Gabrielle has seen a dozen specialists, all of whom have been puzzled." "Professor Gourbeil, of Lyons, has been able to gain complete cures in two cases. Orosin, a newly discovered poison, is the drug that was used, and the Professor has a wider knowledge of the effect of that highly dangerous substance than any person living.

She had, however, told me that her brother, a shipping agent living in Liverpool, who was Gabrielle's godfather, was deeply interested in her. I suggested that she should write to him and urge that, as a last resort, Gabrielle should consult Professor Gourbeil.

"Well, I think that as Professor Gourbeil has cured two persons of the deadly effects of the drug Miss Tennison should see him," I remarked. "I quite agree. It is for that reason I have come to London," he said. "I understand that you, Mr.

Gabrielle and Mrs. Tennison had remained in Lyons, for Professor Gourbeil had suggested that his patient should, as a desperate resource, remain under his treatment for a few weeks. He gave practically no hope of her recovery. The dose of orosin that had been administered was, he declared, a larger one than that which De Gex had introduced into my drink on that night of horrors.

I also described how Professor Vega at Madrid had told me of the two cures effected by Professor Gourbeil, of Lyons. "My sister tells me that you suggest Gabrielle should consult him," Mr. Maxwell said. "But she has consulted so many specialists. Doctor Moroni has been most kind to her. He took her to doctors in Paris and in Italy, but they could do nothing."

This blow upon me is, I confess, a most terrible one. It is so distressing to see my poor child in such an uncertain state of mentality. Sometimes, as I have told you, she is quite normal, though she has no knowledge of what occurred to her. And at other times she is painfully vague and often erratic in her actions." "She must consult Professor Gourbeil, the great alienist, at Lyons.

Later, from the concierge, we found that Professor Gourbeil of the Facultés des Sciences et de Médecine, lived in the Avenue Felix Faure, and I succeeded over the telephone in making an appointment with him for the following day at noon. This I kept, going to him alone in order to explain matters. I found him to be a short, florid-faced man with a shock of white hair and a short white beard.

"There are one or two very few on record. Professor Gourbeil, the well-known alienist of Lyons, has observed two patients who recovered. But the majority of cases where orosin has been administered were found incurable. The mind is blank, the memory completely destroyed, and the general health so undermined that only the strongest persons can withstand the strain."

"Professor Gourbeil is the only man who has ever been able to completely cure a person to whom orosin has been administered and that has been in two cases only." "So the chance is very remote, even if she saw him," exclaimed the widow despairingly. "I think, Mrs. Tennison, that Gabrielle should see him in any case," I said. "I agree. The poor girl's condition is most pitiable.