‘Mrs. Hungerford is never seen to the best advantage when not dealing with the brighter sides of life, or seeming to enjoy as much as her readers the ready sallies and laughing jests of her youthful personages. In her present novel, however, the heroine, if not all smiles and mirth, is quite as taking as her many predecessors, while the spirit of uncontrolled mischief is typified in the American heiress.’—_Morning Post._ =THE THREE GRACES.= 2 vols., crown 8vo., =10s.= net. ‘It is impossible to deny that Mrs. Hungerford is capable of writing a charming love-story, and that she proves her capacity to do so in “The Three Graces.”’—_Academy._ LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY. THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIMENT =A Novel= BY MRS. HUNGERFORD AUTHOR OF ‘MOLLY BAWN,’ ‘THE RED-HOUSE MYSTERY,’ ‘THE THREE GRACES,’ ‘LADY VERNER’S FLIGHT,’ ETC. [Illustration] IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I. =London= CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1895 THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIMENT CHAPTER I. ‘Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.’ The lamp was beginning to burn low; so was the fire. But neither of the two people in the room seemed to notice anything. The Professor had got upon his discovery again, and once there, no man living could check him. He had flung his arms across the table towards his companion, and the hands, with the palms turned upwards, marked every word as he uttered it, thumping the knuckles on the table here, shaking some imaginary disbeliever there—and never for a moment quiet—such old, lean, shrivelled, capable hands! He was talking eagerly, as though the words flowed to him faster than he could utter them. This invention of his—this supreme discovery—would make a revolution in the world of science.