El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-01

RANDOLPH CHESTER B6Bss MERRILL FRI L CO. o.
CONTINUED From Yesterday

for military conquest; Blagg is. mad
for notoriety. You are the maddest
of them all-mad with the thirst for
power. 1t is going to end in crash.
with all your institutions, all your
ideals. all your ends and aims and am
billions Gathering down about your
ears, the most thoroughly shattered
and crumbled wreck and ruin of so
cial 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 a 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 / did not
know that you had devoted so much
thought to these things"
"Bahl" exploded the doctor, snap
ping the fingers of both hands. ST
don't talk all I-think I have talked
too much now. but in my desk have
manuscripts so thick" and with, his
hands he indicated a pile nearly foot
high. cit is my great book on national
neuroticism. I came to America to
study it. Do you suppose that I would
have taken the position of house ply
stefan to Mr.. Breed if I 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. I spent a year and q 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 I am
nearly four years in America. / shall
wait till Henry Breed dies He viii
die in q year or possibly two. Then /
shall go back to Switzerland to pub
lish my great work 1 shall die my
self soon after that. !. too. have a
fatal nervous disease. but IT cannot
kill me before FIVE years. and Ircannot
live beyond seven. But my book will
live. That viii be the valuable part of
DR.. Zelphan. Immortality Of the soul7
No Immortality of the body? No.
Immortality Of the brain? Yes. For
everr'
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
neuroties and he will say: ;ZeIphan-
DR.. Zelphan? Um-m-m-m-the name
seems a tFifie familiar Didn't he dis
cover one of those exploded serum
treatments or somethingT
"Bahp' snapped the doctor. and his
beard. now beginning to streak with
gray. seemed to turn redder from the
redness of his face behind it. "BahI"
ton was weaker and Phillip as he
went downstairs felt q prick of COM
junction at having hit the doctor such
q vital blow
Phillip found the library deserted
and sat down with his back to. the
door to examine a volume on nurnis-
MATES that lay open upon the table.
Soft hands were suddenly clasped
over his eyes. and Lillian Breed press
ed her lips warmly to his at the
touch he crushed her in his arms and
returned her kiss with something akin
to fierceness- Then be thrust her away
from him almost roughly.
You are most fndiscreet." he pro-
tested. looking at the wide open door.
why not2" she demanded. laughing