The Seventh Noon

Frederick Orin Bartlett (1876-1945) wrote some of his books under the pseudonym William Carleton. His most famous works include: The Seventh Noon (1908), The Web of the Golden Spider (1909), The Red Geranium (1915), The Wall Street Girl (1916), One Year of Pierrot (1917), The Triflers (1917) and Jane and I (1922). ""The right to die?" Professor Barstow, with a perplexed scowl ruffling the barbette of gray hairs above his keen eyes, shook his head and turning from the young man whose long legs extended over the end of the lean sofa upon which he sprawled in one corner of the laboratory, held the test-tube, which he had been studying abstractedly, up to the light. The flickering gas was not good for delicate work, and it was only lately that Barstow, spurred on by a glimpse of the end to a long series of experiments, had attempted anything after dark."