“I beg of your Honor, and you, my friends, to believe me. I, J. Ecarg, have never injured a child in my life. I never saw the girl until this moment. I beg of your Honor to have faith in my statements. I know nothing of this child whatever.” “Remember,” said Mr. Niksab, as he handed him a glass of liquid, which he put to his lips and quickly drained. “_Remember_,” he again repeated, as he took the empty glass and placed it on the stand. “It is Memory we are cultivating. Memory, John; _Memory_.” “With your Honor’s consent we will take this subject into the reflection-room,” said the great scientist. “He is one with whom we have been experimenting.” Mr. Niksab and the scientist supported Mr. Ecarg on either side. “‘Memory Fluid’ is beginning to do its work, and remorse of conscience makes him limp,” said Mr. Niksab. “This is a great world—a wonderful age of scientific discovery. Pass, gentlemen, into the reflection-room. Pass at once. I am rejoiced to know that we have another clue which may in some way lead to valuable information concerning the one subject which is consuming the greater part of our present investigations,” concluded the Governor. Mr. Ecarg very much resembled a man who, after years of dissipation was now entering upon one of his big monthly or weekly drunks. As the trio was passing from the Governor’s presence, the scientist said: “Does memory not recall this man, your Honor? I am sure of him. A glorious victory is close at hand.” In a thoughtful mood the Governor followed them to the door, through which they disappeared from view, but he made no response to the scientist’s question. CHAPTER III. THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT DIAZ. The two great scientists, Señor Don Miguel Lehumada and Señor Guillermo Gonzales, had been more successful in their treatment with “Liquid from the Sun’s Rays”—or “Memory Fluid,” as their wonderful discovery had become to be known—than their most sanguine hope for its success could have been in the start. Their belief in the first place was that they had secured a fluid from the Sun, which would under proper conditions destroy every species of bacteria in man; that while the death of disease was taking place, each of the mental faculties and the spiritual nature of man as well, would begin taking on its normal condition, and when the body became freed from all depleting causes, these faculties would be in a condition to rise to a high degree of development. Further, they believed that the fluid they had discovered would have a particular effect upon the memory; not only in restoring it to its normal condition, but in causing it to bring to mind every incident in one’s life.