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It wasn't deliberate. It couldn't have been, because the Professor didn't know about Klarloth's warning to Mitkey about carelessness with electricity -- "Der new molecular rearrangement of your brain center -- it iss unstable, und -- "
And the Professor was still back in the lighted room when Mitkey ran into the room where Minnie was in her barless cage. She was asleep, and the sight of her -- Memory of his earlier days came back like a flash and suddenly Mitkey knew how lonesome he had been.