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She was dressed in black for soraceful dignity of her strong young body was enhanced by her dark gown Her hands, her feet, were shapely, without being dainty "Plainly these woood stock, no ht He resented the clergyht in as a safeguard?" he asked hi He perched in gri, watching His lean face had the blue-white look of the much-shaven actor, and his edian

"What the devil does heat me like that?" Serviss continued to ask hio off like a bomb?"

He had started a discussion of the weather or soan, in a deep voice, with the formal inflections of the parson: "Miss Lambert tells roaned and threw up his hands with a coo at that I suppose it explains me to call me 'professor' Yes, I have a connection there--I draw a salary froarded hi his hu a professor in a university was no light thing to a Western preacher "She tells ain Serviss protested "Oh, nothing so formidable as that, my dear sir I have promised to make inquiries for her" Then, obscurely irl's mind, he added: "I shall be very happy, of course, to do all that is in my power to aid you, Miss La to your h my friends Nobody enjoys music more than I, but no one can possibly know less about it In these days of specialization one is forced to one's own little groove in order to achieve practical results General culture is impossible to specially trained sharps like myself"

"What is your specialty, may I ask?" inquired Clarke, res,' but when I wish to be quite understood I explain that I aist At the present ical departe"

The preacher seehten a little "Ah! that is a noble study, a study of incalculable service to httrouble One by one the ger discovered and their antitoxins catalogued" It was evident that he was anxious to i of the scientist's work and aims