Dr Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne, text and audio.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Dr Heidegger's Experiment," ​Dr. Heidegger invites four elderly friends to his study to participate in an experiment. They include a merchant who has lost all his money, a colonel who wasted his life in the pursuit of pleasure, a ruined politician, and a woman who has led a scandalous life. Dr Heidegger has a vase containing water that he says is from the Fountain of Youth…