Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-18

entire social system But dld not
know that you had devoted so much
thought TO these things"
BAH exploded the doctor, snap
ping the fingers Of both hands. Il
don't talk all 1 think. / have talked
too much now. but in my desk 1 have
manuscripts so thick" and with his
hands he indicated pile nearly foot
high. "It is my great book on national
neuroticism- I came to America to
study It Do you suppose that l would
have taken the position of house ply
stefan to Mr.. Breed If l had not found
clustered about him exactly the mate
rial wished for my book on alienism?
MOI / have spent a lifetime on neural
deterioration considered from a racial
standpoint. I spent a year and half
in China. one in Japan, one in Russia,
three in France, two in England and
Eve years scattered about in other
parts Of Europe and Asia. Now l am
nearly four years in America. ] shall
wait till Henry Breed dies. He will
die in q year or possibly two. Then
shall go back to Switzerland to pub
lish nv great work I shall die. my
self soon after that /, too. have a
fatal nervous disease, but 1t cannot
kill me before five years, and I cannot
live beyond seven. But my book will
| live. 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
ever"
Possibly agreed Phillip dryly.
''No 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: 'ZeIphan-
DR.. Zelphan? Um-m-m-m-the name
seems trife familiar. Didn't be dis
cover one of those exploded serum
treatments or something's"
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 Bah"
he repeated, but this time the exclama-
ton was weaker, and Phillip as he
went downstairs felt a prick of COM
junction at having hit the doctor such
a vital blow.
Phillip found the library deserted
and sat down with his back to the
door to examine a volume on numis-
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 ferceness. Then he thrust her away
from him almost roughly.
You are most indiScreet," he pro-
tested. looking at the wide open door.
"Why not?" she demanded, laughing.
IF somebody stepped in upon US we
should only have to make an an
nouncement."
He WINGED involuntarily at that, and
she saw il. There had been that be-
tween them which makes a woman
fonder and man more careless. For
a moment she laid her hands upon
her breast, but she was surprised to
find that there came no hot retort,
usually so ready upon her lips. With
out effort, without exerting himself TO
do so, Kelvin had for the time being
tanned the wild panther within her,
and her only impulse she found to be
one OF Cancellation. She smiled up at
him, her swift wit settling upon the
quick change of topic that might in
terest him in her mental qualities, but
prompt as she was there came an in
terruption in the person of DR.. Eel
phaD, who called Phillip peremptorily.
II want to show you something" he
said to Phillip at the door. Breed is
down in his vault dressed in all the
gaudy mummery OF lodge initiation,
squatted fat on the floor, with money
scattered all about him and his old
Bible before him on a chair, Ike a
voodoo idol And he is iabbertng
CARRIED texts that in his inte.preta
ton are worse than blasphemy."
Lillian. left to herself. stood a mo-
ment. her breast heaving, and then
dropped into the chair that Kelvin had
vacated and grew deeply thoughtful
She had scarcely moved when. at the
end Of about twenty minutes. Herbert
Rensselaer, was announced
1T IS a pleasure to find you alone"
be observed. You are so very popu-
lar that an edgewise word with you Is
a rare boon. You've made yourself
the sensation Of Washington"
NO" lillian protested thoughtfully.