Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-04

SCarJle them Ou1y, UT. O1yOeF DOu b you think"
 ''It may do more than merely that?" the other broke in. "Ah, what I've just said seems audacity enough in it. self. My dear Maynard-my dear Ger, ald, if you'll let me call you so-when I'd read through half that extraor- dinary piece of writing, began to laugh as a fellow would do at some bright but over-bold extravaganza It seemed as if a man were saying: Look; I can take the clouds out of the sky, turn them into a new metal, like Mil toms 'more ethereal" one, and build you with them a stately pleasure house," like the one poor Coleridge saw in that mad vision born of his drug But after I'd read on, the smile died from my lips Here, too, might be madness, but it cer- tainly had the trick of looking as sane as Hamlet's. The whole thing, if a failure, is defeat with almost the mag nificence of conquest"
 They talked on together for a good while about the new proposed dealings with electricity and the three ele- mentary chemical bodies that were ordered as concomitants in its astound- ing treatment before a certain ''whitish liquid, excessively volatile and some what luminous If stirred" should at last crown the operators labors-
 "You state that you know very little of chemistry" Gerald presently said 'CI begin to see that you are full of such knowledge"
 'sIt has shabby look beside yours, answered Clyde, heartily-"by love, if it hasn'tl'
 Gerald colored at the compliment. Again Clyde laughed, and in his blithe style went on: "You can blush as modestly as girl, my lad-as the girl, perhaps, whom you've left behind you"
 i've left no girl behind me-" said Gerald, with instant frankness- "WhatI How marvelousi At your age you've never been in love9 That beats the wonders that your father prophecies"
 "oh, I've fancied myself in love moro l than once," affirmed Gerald, "but each scatter their petals when we try to pluck them"
 "Ah, some day you'll pluck a rose that will accommodate you by staying on her stem."
 "Let us hope so," smiled Gerald, with a shrug. But you," he pursued, ''have you never thought of marriage2" "It seems to me that I'm always thinking of 1t and never performing it, " said Clyde, with a little sigh and a downward look at the nosegay that nearly always gleamed on the lapel ot his coat. Then he glanced upward and lifted both hands with mock despair. I,aA okxs, he rcd "I'm ambitious. I want to get out of life all it will give me, but feel con- vinced the older grow that marriage is the one state of being for which l should never find time. It would in- volve, so to speak, a cruel confusion in the rest of my affairs, and would rum my present splendid reputation for keep ing them all duly labeled and pigeon holed. No; it is true that can crowd many occupations into a single day, but marriage is precisely one egg too many for my basket"
 This ightsome speech jared upon Gerald. He gave an impatient frown, which Clyde's quick eye saw, and ex- plained: "You think me flippant," he pursued, lat time when you expected me to show the greatest gravity And you are wholly right"
 "I expected you-at least hoped to ! find you-aidful," Gerald said, with a sad kind of courtesy.
 Command my aid, dear fellow"
 "How shall act regarding this pa per? You know how my brother treat ed it-what puritanic repulsion it reused in him2'
 ''Yes."
 11, k1,sr l-r10rxy hnru Io has literally lost a young and charming wife because of it. At least, her picture seems to assure me that she was charm ing," added Gerald, land certainly Syl- vans desperate sense of loss would con- firm this view"
 Clyde shook his head as If in strong doubt. ''She may have been charming enough. But to leave him like thatl It strikes me as huge piece of non- sense. aStill," he went on, ''there is no accounting for a certain sort of femi- nine wildness. It crops out in our sis ter sex with all the botanical caprice o1 fungi. Now, in the matter of coun. sel, accept from me this bit of dictum By all means exploit your fathers idea, and as thoroughly as you are able"
 "You mean, follow his instructions tc the letter."
 "Yes.'
 "Your words are immensely wei comet" exclaimed Gerald. "I feared your Encouragement. And upon my word should not have had the heart, after receiving it, to fly in the face of ou' nineteenth century slzepticisms. Any practical putting to proof of what the manuscript enjoins, will require an out lay of certain funds, and these, thank. to Dr. Thorndyke's goodness, need not trouble me. But it may also require the help of slsillful, perhaps B very ac complished chemist. May seek you influence in securing his services?"
 "Emphatically I should advise nc such course," declared Clyde.
 "What? You believe that I could work alone?"
 "Far better if you did. Get assist