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"Seems to me," he remarked, "that you gentlemen have made some sort of a mistake. Where do you think you are, anyway?" "On board Schwann's yacht, the Christabel," Selingman replied. Richard shook his head. "Not a bit of it," he assured them. "This is the steam-yacht, Minnehaha, which brought me over from New York, and of which I am most assuredly the owner.
He was, says his biography in the Encyclopædia Britannica, "of a peculiarly gentle and amiable character and remained a devout Catholic throughout his life." Schwann's experiments tended to show that the introduction of air of course containing oxygen did not lead to the production of life, if the air had first been thoroughly sterilised.
The yeast plant is a mere sac, or "cell," containing a semi-fluid matter, and Schwann's microscopic analysis resolved all living organisms, in the long run, into an aggregation of such sacs or cells, variously modified; and tended to show, that all, whatever their ultimate complication, begin their existence in the condition of such simple cells.
The two horses stepped gingerly out of Schwann's premises, and when once on the high road dashed madly forward. The inn was wrapped in silence and almost in darkness only one room was lighted, the one where the Marquis sat, impatient and anxious. He, too, heard the horses galloping. His plan had succeeded, then. In a few minutes the house would be surrounded.
Of course various other workers at once disputed Schwann's claim to priority of discovery, in particular the English microscopist Valentin, who asserted, not without some show of justice, that he was working closely along the same lines. Put so, for that matter, were numerous others, as Henle, Turpin, Du-mortier, Purkinje, and Muller, all of whom Schwann himself had quoted.
Then at once he reasoned that if there really is the correspondence between vegetable and animal tissues that he suspected, and if the nucleus is so important in the vegetable cell as Schleiden believed, the nucleus should also be found in the ultimate particles of animal tissues. Schwann's researches soon showed the entire correctness of this assumption.
"She is made of Paris stuff," said another. "She's not calculated for our village." A new incident now occurred. A post-chaise, drawn by vigorous horses, now dashed into the Square, and drew up before Master Schwann's inn. Before the worthy innkeeper could come down the steps to welcome the new arrival, another person had dashed past him.
Schwann's researches made it plain that the best field for the study of the animal cell is here, and a host of explorers entered the field. The result of their observations was, in the main, to confirm the claims of Schwann as to the universal prevalence of the cell.
Then it will be the yacht which I shall borrow which will lie off the Villa Mimosa to-night." "It is admirable," Frenhofer declared. "The more one thinks of it, the more one appreciates. This yacht of Schwann's the Christable, he calls it was fitted out by a millionaire. My master will be surprised at nothing in the way of luxury."
I want you to haul down your American flag, keep your American sailors out of sight, cover up the Stars and Stripes in your cabin, have only your foreign stewards on show. Schwann's yacht is a costly one. No one will know the difference. You must get up now and show me over the boat. I have to scheme, somehow or other, how we can hide ourselves on it so that I can overhear the end of this plot."
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