The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-08-10

Breed turned the corner DR.
4 Zelphan came from a room op.
posite. He, too. looked at the retiring
form of Breed and then turned his
thick spectacles in Kelvin's direction.
"Did he borrow any money of your"
ne asked abruptly, every hair of his
flaming beard apparently pointing out
ward In indignant query.
zone hundred and fourteen dollars"
replied Kelvin, smiling.
81 knew It," declared Zelphan.
Don't let him have any more. The
man has gone money mad. Every
time he sees dollar of cash he must
have II. He borrows my salary from
me regularly, sometimes the very day
he pays Il TO me. He borrows money
from Mrs. Rensselaer,. from Rollins
from Herbert. even from the servants.
and every penny OF II he boards.
When any of them protests he reluc-
family pays it back by check"
II did not know that he was so
weak" said Kelvin, shocked. 81 have
been aware that the condition was
growing upon him, but had no idea
that he had gone so far with his &C.
centricities."
"Eccentricitiesw snorted the doctor.
Hes crazy-crazy as loon. You're
all crazy, the whole crowd Of you. vic
Tins of the American craving for
what you call success. Breed is mad
for money: Mrs. Rensselaer, is mad
90 a1 ,.agtt1ap. no to a
for military conquest; Blagg is mad
for notoriety. You are the maddest
Of them all-mad with the thirst for
power. II is going to end in a crash,
with all your institutions. all your
ideals, all your ends and aims and am.
billions Gathering down about your
sars, the most thoroughly shattered
md crumbed wreck and ruin OF a so.
,ial structure in the history Of the
world As nations have risen. so have
they fallen. Those that have been the
most rapid IN their rise TO supremacy
have been the most rapid In disinte-
grafton. Already your pro rata birth
rate is decreasing. and century will
see America as sterile as France"
Kelvin nodded his head with an en-
phatic Jerk. "That is precisely why
there must be an utter change IN our
entire social system. But I did NOT
know that you had devoteds SO muck
thought TO these things"
Bah" exploded the doctor, snap
ping the fingers of both hands. "T
don't talk all l think. have talked
too much now. but in my desk have
manuscripts so thick" and with his
hands he indicated pile nearly a foot
high. "It is my great book on national
neuroticism. I came TO America to
study It. Do you suppose that | would
have taken the position Of house ply
sician TO Mr.. Breed II had not found
clustered about him exactly the mate
rial wished for my book on alienism:
No! have spent a lifetime on neural
deterioration considered from racial
standpoint spent a year and a half
In China. one In Japan. one In Russia.
three In France. two In England and
five years scattered about In other
parts OF Europe and Asia. Now ] am
nearly four years in America. shall
wait till Henry Breed dies. He will
die in year or possibly two. Then /
shall go back TO Switzerland TO pub
lish my great vors. . shall die my
self soon after that. !, too. have a
fatal nervous disease. but 1t cannot
kill me before FIVE years, and cannot
live beyond seven. But my book will
i've. That will be the valuable part of
Dr. Zelphan. Immortality of the soul?
No. Immortality of the body? No
Immortality OF the brain? Yes. For
eYerW ----v--@sasa's.- 80 'so-''7e--..----
; Possibly" agreed Phillip dryly.
mo doubt, doctor, your work will be
accepted as a standard. Five years
afterward some other savant will
write another four volume work upset
ting all your theories, and five years
after that somebody will mention your
name to a noted alienist or student of
neurotics and he will say: 'Zelphan-
DR.. Zelphan? Um-m-m-m-the name
seems trife familiar. Didn't he dis
cover one of those exploded serum
treatments or somethingT"
bah" snapped the doctor. and his
beard, now beginning 10 streak with
gray, seemed to turn redder from the
redness Of his face behind it. "Bahl"
he repeated. but this time the exclama-
tion was weaker and Phillip as he
went downstairs felt a prick OF com
junction at having hit the doctor such
vital blow.
Phillip found the library deserted
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