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CHAPTER XXI.
kUHILLIP stoot looking SITTER lin
- moment, puzzled, and -
Breed turned the corner DR..
Zelphan came from a room OPP
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 you?"
he asked abruptly, every hair OF his
flaming beard apparently pointing out
ward In Indignant query. 81
Zone hundred and fourteen dollars"
replied Kelvin, smiling.
~ knew It." declared Zelphan.
Don't let him have any more. The
man has gone money mad. Every
time he sees 3 dollar Of cash he must
have It.. He borrows my salary from
me regularly, sometimes the very day
he pays It to me- He borrows money
from Mrs.. Rensselaer,, from Rollins,
from Herbert. even from the servants,
and every penny Of It he boards.
family pays 1t back by check"
II did not know that he was 20
weak" sid Kelvin, shocked. II have
been aFars that the condition was
growing upon HIM, but bad no idea
that he had gone so far with his &C.
centricities."
'Tccentricidesv' snorted the doctor.
"He's crazy-crazy as a loon. You're
al crazy, the whole crowd of you. vic
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. It r. going to end In crash.
with all your institutions, all your
ideals, all your ends and aims and am
bitions Gathering down about your
ears, the most thoroughly shattered
and crumbled wreck and ruin Of So
cial structure in the history Of the
world. Al 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 a. 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"
''Bahw exploded the doctor, snap
ping the fingers OF both hands. 81
don't talk all think. 4 have talked
too much now. but in my desk have
manuscripts 50 thick" and with his
hands he indicated a pile nearly foot
high. at is my great book on national
neuroticism. came to America to
study It. Do you suppose that I would
have taken the position Of house ply
stefan 20 Mr.. Breed If had net found
clustered shout him exactly the mate
rial wished for my book on alienism
No! have spent a lifetime on neural
detesioratlen considered from a racial
standpoint. I spent year and half
IN China, ono In Japan, one in Russia.
three in France. two In England and
five years scattered about I'm other
parts Of Europe and Asia. Now I am
nearly four years in America. shall
wait till Henry Breed dies. He will
die in q year or possibly two. Then I
shall 20 back to Switzerland to pub
lish my great work. shall die my
self soon after that. I. too have .
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
DIR. 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 a. a standard Five years
aftefward some other savant win
write another four volume work upset
ting ali your theories, and i've years
after that somebody Will mention your
name to a noted alienist or student Of
neurotics and he will say: 'Zelphan-
Or. Elephant Um-m-m-m-the name
seems tribe familiar. Didn't he dis
cover one Of those exploded serum
treatments or something?"
"Bahv' snapped the doctor, and his
beard, now beginning to streak with
gray. seemed to turn redder from the
redness Of his face behind 1t. "Bah!'
he repeated, but this time the exclama-
ton was weaker, and Phillip as he
went downstairs felt q 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 4 volume on numis-
matics that Jay open upon the tabie
Soft hands were suddenly clasped
over his eyes, and Lillian Breed press
"a her lips warmly TO Ais. At the
touch 10 crushed her IN his arms and
returned her kiss With somsthing akin
20 neEceness. Then b. thrust her away
from him almost roughly.
You are most indiscreet," he pro.
tested, looking ut the wide open door.
"Why notT' she demanded, laughing.
III somebody stepped In upon NJ we
should only have to make IN an
nouncement."
He WINGED involuntarily at that, and
she saw It. There had been that BE-
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