"
"And I will. Not all. I do not think that I shall ever, while I live,
tell all. But I shall leave directions behind me so that when I die you
may be able to carry on my unfinished work. I shall tell you where
those directions are to be found. In the meantime, you must be content
to learn the effects which I produce without knowing every detail as to
the means."
Robert settled himself down in his chair and concentrated his attention
upon his companion's words, while Haw bent forward his eager, earnest
face, like a man who knows the value of the words which he is saying.
"You are already aware," he remarked, "that I have devoted a great deal
of energy and of time to the study of chemistry."
"So you told me."
"I commenced my studies under a famous English chemist, I continued them
under the best man in France, and I completed them in the most
celebrated laboratory of Germany. I was not rich, but my father had
left me enough to keep me comfortably, and by living economically I
had a sum at my command which enabled me to carry out my studies in a
very complete way. When I returned to England I built myself a
laboratory in a quiet country place where I could work without
distraction or interruption. There I began a series of investigations
which soon took me into regions of science to which none of the three
famous men who taught me had ever penetrated.
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