The Washington herald., 1908-05-21
CHAPTER X-Continued.

'As two clouds melt into one another. d.
he muttered, their auras are fusing. The
Jupterian influence is strong IN the
American. and Venus in them both The
other will be a poet with a business
head-that is funny! Oh, It will be very
funny, I will give him some more OF
Jupiter" He manipulated the switch,
and in one OF the vacuum tubes the light
Of steei-blue flashed and sparkled. for a
moment subduing the others. And this
American a little more of the. lunar Vi
brations-and the other can spare them.
An idealistic materialist-ho, hor Again
he manipulated the wires. and a pale
mauve light predominated.
lie stood IN 'front.' Of Fabian for a mo-
ment with folded arms.
You are too susceptible, my friend
you and my daughter. Elsa. You feel too
easily the effect Of vibrations with which
you are both in tune. Well. well. When
you are Of the same star group, VINO shall
blame you? No. no. my friend. I do not
blame YOU. but I change your tune a
little. that is best-and most interesting
10 watch the effect when you see Elsa
again-with the affinity broken"
He turned of one OF the switches n
Fabians collar and turned on another.
Then he gazed into the staring eyes for
full minute. so You care not for
my daughter any more. How could you
ever have thought her beautiful, with
that turned-up nose?' He laughed
moved away. 5nd began 10 walk about
the room, looking at his watch, as
though timing the boiling Of an egg. Aft
or a while he came back to the machine
again.
Magnetic interchangeable twins" he
murmured, as he gazed into the mirror
1T IS wonderful, OrmuZ, the Chaldean,
salute you-you very clever Ormuz
The prevention OF the reflex action SO
that one could be insulated-that IS mine
There were slaves born TO bear such bur-
dens IN Ormuzs day They could be
made passive prisoners. No. OTmUz had
not that problem. To-day ihe slaves
are made, not born. but they must not
know lit would never do that they
knew t. But with all those millions Of
money-without slaves--no good-no good
at all"
Then he stood in front OF Vandraken.
With his pink face and bronzy hair de-
prived Of all life, he looked like a wax
work figure. Won TaTsenheim suddenly
emitted a harsh. CaCkling laugh as he
apostTophized Vandraken.
"Oh, you are funny! But you must not
laugh too much Abdul-no. IL would be
rude to laugh too much. You think you
hire q man for the experiment, and all
the time you are the experiment. You
think you have gone to cheat the gods
I wonder what they will do TO you
Yes, it will be funny to watch what
they win do 10 you. 1t is like per-
suading q little boy he can beat a big
boy, and then to watch the fight, and
see what the big boy does to the little
boy. And you pay me one hundred thou
sand pounds! It is Ike being paid to go
to the theater.
"Ormuz. my friend. you lived in the
wrong day. There was nothing good at
the theater In your day, but now there
are the men of wonderful riches, who
make themselves kings, and the subjects
know It not Then they try TO make of
themselves gods, and the gods tell on
them 10 the people. and the people wake
up and pull down the rich men. and the
rich men fall on the people. and all go
smash together 1t will be funny 10
the day when men have rolled the stone
almost to the top Of the hill where the
gods live, and then, just as they begin
to shout. There are no gods but our
selves the unseen hand-and a push
and the stone goes mop. hop. hop. to
the bottom Of the hillr' Won larsen
helm eackled again. And then the
laugh from Olympus-the light on the
top Of the hill the darkness at
the bottom-and the remnant spawning
IN the darkness for centuries, till they are
strong enough TO begin to push the stone
TO the top again. Abdul Won larsen
helm rubbed his hands together delight
edly. But 7 think this dish Is cooked"
He looked into the black mirror Yes,
they are quite cooked. those scrambled
eggs He turned of the switch, and
the colored lights died out in the vacuum
tubes.
Yes. their auras are now well tan
gled. It viii take years 10 undo them.
1t is very funny-two men with their