Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-24

is still too volatile. 1t cvaporates with
enormous rapidity; it needs a third
force to slip in and prevent this con-
tinual distinctive trend. Such force
I am on the threshold of finding. 1t |
will not be hard to find. | almost |
divine it at this moment
have crossed the threshold Oh |
superb conquest; l pause, as It
We're in the antechainber. And L have
paused Intentionally. Do you know
why? The excitement has been too an |
tense l wish to have my triumph |
shared with me. VIII not you share it?
VIII not you rejoice with me l. 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 a lit
tie and pressed her lips tightly togeth-
err. Those words fable and ''supersti-
ton met her ears with an ominous note.
She remembered chad she ever forgot
ten?) the abhorred skepticism of her
husband.
You mean, then" she slowly said,
that YOU may soon discover power to
term
.Yes-I mean that" he replied, with
vehcmence, and mean more
'.NOre?''
There is no reason-none whatever
why human being with no organic
disease or lesion, should not live for
ever. while fed and buoyed by this spien-
did stimulus. ="
Hush" she interrupted, rising. Her
face was very pale, and her features
twitched little as she framed her next
sentence. Il am sorry that you've told
me ANYTHING of this. | didn't ask you
to tell it. But now that you've done so,
| Egbert. can only assure you how i'm
| pious it strikes me-what shameful
revolt it appears against the sacred
| laws of Cod
| She rose. after this, and promptly
| swept from the room. Maynard could
! have cursed himself for telling her
| The breach between them seemed in
| few short minutes abysmally to have
widened. He might have known that
| her mind would have taken some such
view of his grand project. Thenceforth
every hint of his old love perishes The
| last remnant of tenderness for this
woman had given place to a dread lest
| she might seek to thwart and balll his de-
signs But soon he had controlled such
dread and even scoffed at it. Still, he
felt humiliated insulted, slapped on the
check. Were it not for the boys, he
told himself, he would never willingly
look again on the face of his wife.
He went out into the breezy starlit
garden. where his sons laughter had
lately rang They had gone into the
house now, and were perhaps being
| undressed for bed by their mother,
who had always strictly enforced upon
| them early hours. All, such mother.
| MAYNARD shuddered there in the chill of
the nearing night, and as he shuddered
a pain darted through his chest and he
! coughed. Then, in a little while, the
handkerchief which he put to his lips
| grew stained, and somewhat cOpiOuSly,
with blood. \ pang of fear now thrilled
him What if he should die before com
pleting his transcendant work? He had
had that cough for years. and been care
less about it. Possibly the very aglta-
ton through which he had just passed
had developed furtive lung weakness
of whose real existence he had been but
vaguely aware.
The last step in his great accomplish
ment had vet to be taken. He spent
several hours of feverish work in his
laboratory that night and went to bed
feeling strangely feeble. The next day
he visited a certain famous London ply
stefan, who told him things which he no
sooner heard than he began to doubt
them, after the fashion of countless con-
sumptives. The mortal who suffers
from any pulmonary i'll seldom can see
his own threatening doom. Still a
young man, Maynard had been attacked
with an arterial hcmorrhage whose eff
fects absolute rest might have appeased
though never cured. But rest of any
sort was precisely what he now refused
to take. \ double incentive hereafter
swayed him. He desired to perfect his
, unparalleled drug. and he desired to use
, it upon his own impaired body. 1t could
not endow him, he argued, with immu,
nifty from future disease, but it might
, prolong his life for many decade by
the intense nutriment it gave to Other
organs than those already harmed.
: His wife watched his la bOrS with cold
disrelish. She perceived that his health
, was failing: he had never borne the
, look of a man free from all lurking
, malady, and now his CLASSY eyes anC
, | sunken checks told a somber tale. Al
: ways previously willing that his boys
s | should go and come as they chose during
| his studies and experiments, he got into
5 the habit of exiting them from his pres
ence while he brooded and toiled. The
= two little fellows loved him very dearly
and resented being thus prescribed. He
e | would endeavor, at intervals, to console
them for this hated denial, but otter
f while giving them the fatherly caresse:
: for which they both hungered in theil
, | pretty eagerness, he would either dis
h Germ. or fancy that he discerned, a sor
: of smoldering disapproval on the par
: of their mother.
One day he said to himself, with {
i wild gladness: 1T is found! | knew
t victory was waiting just beyond my
{ reach, and l have put forth the one
a needed effort and grasped it,
r That evening he poured into 4 larg,
flask what he felt even more thar
$ firmly convinced was the energy, won
e drously materialized and iquefied
f which permeated, in its vital sovereign
Y ty, the entire universe. He wa
t very unnerved and exhausted; he hat
i worked for many hours without tn
e least pause. 1t was nearly midnight
( and he went to one of his windows
: raising it recklessly, and letting a raw
}, wind blow into the chamber from