The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-15

zone hundred and fourteen dollars"
replied Kelvin. smiling
81 knew IT," declared Zelphan.
Don't let him have any more. The
snan has gone money mad. Every
time he sees n dollar OF cash he must
have It, He borrows my salary from
me regularly, sometimes the very day
he pays II 10 me. He borrows money
from Mrs. Rensselaer,. from Rollins.
from Herbert. even from the servants,
and every penny OF Il he boards.
When any OF them protests he reluc-
family pays 1t back by check"
81 did not know that he was so
weak" said Kelvin. shocked. IL have
been aware that the condition was
growing upon him, but l had no idea
that he had gone so far with his &C.
centricitles."
"Eccentricitiesv' snorted the doctor.
Hes crazy-crazy as a 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
for social position; her nephew is mad
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 a 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 10 supremacy
have been the most rapid In disinte-
grafton. Already your pro rata birth
rate il decreasing, and century will
see America as sterile "a France"
Kelvin nodded his head with an en-
phatic Jerk. THAT is precisely why
there must he an utter change In our
entire social system. But / did not
know that you had devoted so much
thought to these things"
"Bahw exploded the doctor. snap
ping the fingers OF both hands 81
don't talk all | think. have talked
too much now. but I'm my desk ! have
manuscripts so thick" and with his
hands he indicated pile nearly foot
: high. at is my great book on national
neuroticism. / came to America to
study IL. DO you suppose that ! would
have taken the position OF house ply
stefan To Mr.. Breed IL had not found
clustered about him exactly the mate
rial wished for my book on alienlsm
MOI / have spent n lifetime on neural
deterioration considered from racial
standpoint ! spent year and a half
! I'm China. one in Japan. one in Russia.
three i'm France. two i'm England and
| five years scattered about I'm other
! parts of Europe and Asia. Now ! am
nearly four years in America. I shall
wait till Henry Breed dies. He will
die in year or possibly two. Then l
! shall go back to Switzerland TO pub
| lish my great work. / shall die my
self soon after that. ], too. have n
! fatal nervous disease. but It cannot
! kill me before five years, and | cannot
! live beyond seven. But my book will
Il
Or. Zelphan. Immortality of the soul ?
| No. Immortality of the body? No.
Immortality of the brain? Yes. For
ever!'
Possibly" agreed Phillip dryly.
mo doubt. doctor, your work will be
accepted as 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 alienlst or student of
neurotics and he will say: Zelphan-
DR.. Zelphan? Um-m-m-m-the name
seems a trihe familiar. Didn't he dis
cover one OF those exploded serum
treatments or somethlng|"
BAH" snapped the doctor. and his
beard. now beginning to 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 prick of COM
junction at having hit the doctor such
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 flerceness. Then he thrust her away
from him almost roughly.
"You are most indiscrcet." he pro-
tested, looking at the wide open door.
why notT 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 1t. There had been that be-
tween them which makes woman
fonder and man more careless. For
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,