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Dr. Marc DuQuesne was in his laboratory, engaged in a research upon / certain of the rare metals, particularly in regard to their / electrochemical properties. He was a striking figure. Well over six feet / tall, unusually broad-shouldered even for his height, he was plainly a / man of enormous physical strength. His thick, slightly wavy hair was / black. His eyes, only a trifle lighter in shade, were surmounted by / heavy black eyebrows which grew together above his aquiline nose.
Scott strolled into the room, finding DuQuesne leaning over a delicate / electrical instrument, his forbidding but handsome face strangely / illuminated by the ghastly glare of his mercury-vapor arcs.