Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-30

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principle Of life spreads through the
whole universe. That principle, that
essence, no mortal has ever yet at
tanned. To attain it. as l soon shall do,
would in many cases have been defiance
Of death. For such an elixir"
"ElixirP" his wife broke in, with a
faint, ieering laugh. THAT has a very
familiar sound, and not ut all credi-
BILE one"
He bowed, with curt, swift acquies-
cence. "Oh, yes. No doubt used the
wrong word. It has a Cagliostro-lilSe
echo, admit. But don't mean that
sort of thing bit, Georgina. have ac-
complished, in partial way, the
liouefaction Of electricity. 1t is fluid,
as we scientists have always more or
less supposed. But none of us have
thus far been able to find out any thing
concerning It except its effects. 1t nj.
ways hitherto, has BEEN, so to speak; we
never presumed to say OF it that 1 IS
anywhere. But have imprisoned it in
an actual liquid, through processes of
molecular and atomic fusion with that
one elemental body which l have
CHANGED to see that it loves, clings to.
and is conquered by. But as yet my
achieved results are not wholly
triumphant. The liquid have obtained
is still too volatile. II evaporates with
enormous rapidity; 1t needs third
force to slip in and prevent this con-
tinual distinctive trend. Such force
l am on the threshold of finding. 1t
will not be hard to find. l almost
divine it at this moment.
have crossed the threshold of a
superb conquest; pause, as 1t
were, in the antecha nber. And l have
paused Intentionally. Do you know
why? The excitemcn Mt has been too in
tense. l wish to nave my triumph
shared with me. VIII not you share it?
win not you rejoice with me in this
magnificence Of discovery, greater than
man has ever yet approached, however
he may in past years have dreamed,
through trust in fable and superstition,
that he might possibly reach it?"
Georgina had dropped her head q lit
tie and pressed her lips tightly togeth-
err. Those words "fa BILE" and ''supersti-
tion' met her ears with an ominous note.
She remembered chad she ever forgot
ten?) the abhorred slkepticism OF her
husband.
"You mean, then" she slowly said,
''that you may soon discover power to
prolong human life beyond its natural
| term?"
"Yes-I mean that" he replied, with
vehemence, land mean more"
"More?"
| There is no reason-none whatever
why a human being with no organic
disease or lesion, should not live for
ever, while fed and bloyed by this splen'
did stimulus. l."
"Hush," she interrupted, rising. Her
face was very pale, and her features
twitched little as she framed her next
sentence. 81 am sorry that you've told
me anything of this. didn't ask you
to tell 1t. But now that you've done so
Egbert, I can only assure you how i'm
pious IL strikes me-what a shameful
revolt It appears against the sacred
laws Of God"
She rose, after this, and promptly
swept from tho room. Maynard coulC
have cursed himself for telling her
The breach between them seemed in &
few short minutes abysmally to have
widened. He might have known tina
her mind would have taken some sucl
view of his grand project. Thencefortl
every hint Of his old love perishes. Thu
last remnant Of tenderness for thi
woman had given place to a dread les
she might seek to thwart and balk his de
signs. But soon he had controlled sucl
dread and even scoffed at it. Still, HI
felt Inundated, insulted, slapped on thu
cheek. Were II not for the boys, h
told himself, he would never willingl,
look again on the face of his wife.
He went out into the breezy starli
garden, where his sons laughter haC
lately rang. They had gone into thu
house now, and were perhaps being
addressed for bed by their mother
who had always striotly enforced upol
them early hours. All, such a mother
Maynard shuddered there in the chill o
the nearing night, and as he shuddere'
pain darted through his chest and h,
coughed. Then, in u little while, tn
handkerchief which he put to his lip
grew stained, and somewhat copiously
with blood. A pang of fear now thrille'
him. What If he should die before com
, pleting his transcendant work? He Ia,
had that cough for years, and been care
/ less about IL. Possibly the very aglta
ton through which lie had just passe'
had developed q furtive lung weakness
Of whose real existence he had been bu
vaguely aware.
!, The last step In his great accomplish