Chapter 7
Professor Poup’s Ethereal Studies
While professor Poup was improving his health at the Karlovy Vary resort, the benefactors moved the laboratory to the Swiss Alps. The benevolent society even acquired an ancient organ, which, according to the words of a familiar falsetto inside the receiver, the unsurpassed Johann Sebastian Bach himself had once played.
“Played with both his hands and feet!” the distant speaker chirped contently. “Jigged them like the devil himself!”
Jacob was brought to the new place on the dirigible, and an uncommonly beautiful woman named Medina accompanied him.
“Patron is flying with us,” she was playing with a tame iguana. “But he never speaks to anyone during the flight.”
“Ah, so mister Zhabon is aboard!” the professor brightened up. “And how did we m
