I should tell you that, behind us, the concierge held the laboratory lamp--a powerful lamp, that lit the whole chamber.
it was fortunate for me that Monsieur Stangerson was in the laboratory when the affair took place and had seen with his own eyes that I was there with him; for otherwise, with this business of my revolver, I don't know where we should have been,--I should now be under lock and bar.
I visited Lloyd's laboratory a number of times after that, and found him always deep in his search after the absolute black.
A couple of days later, before the entrance to Paul's laboratory, I encountered a terrible stench.
Now his laboratory occupied an isolated situation in the midst of his vast grounds.
And at once, as the door swung inward on its hinges, the whole interior of the laboratory impinged upon my vision.
Long we talked that last morning in his laboratory; and when I turned to go, he put his unseen hand in mine with nervous grip, and said, "Now I shall conquer the world!" And I could not dare to tell him of Paul Tichlorne's equal success.
It was almost nine the following morning before Professor Maxon and von Horn entered the laboratory. Scarcely had the older man passed the doorway than he drew up his hands in horrified consternation.
As von Horn and Professor Maxon talked together in the laboratory before the upsetting of vat Number Thirteen, a grotesque and horrible creature had slunk from the low shed at the opposite side of the campong until it had crouched at the flimsy door of the building in which the two men conversed.
"You mustn't blame me if you don't get on with him," he said; "I know nothing more of him than I have learned from meeting him occasionally in the laboratory. You proposed this arrangement, so you must not hold me responsible."
Near the further end a low arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical laboratory.
"I shall have to go home and get some things from the
laboratory."
As he led her over the threshold of the laboratory, Georgiana was cold and tremulous.
Hastening after her husband, she intruded for the first time into the laboratory.
According to the vulgar idea, the fire in his
laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; and so, as might be expected, his visage was getting sooty with the smoke.
