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"I have called to talk with you about Miss La my advice as to her study in New York, I would like to knohether you, as their pastor, counsel this ers sought, found, and closed tightly upon a ruler "That I cannot answer directly," he said, slowly "Miss Lambert's case is not simple She is a very remarkable musician, that you know, and yet her talent is fitful She sometimes plays very badly I am not at all sure she has the tee"

"I made a somewhat similar remark to the mother myself"

"Moreover, her interests are not the only factors in the problehter, and without her she would suffer The well-being of the fa"

"You have your own interests, too, I dare say"

Clarke's eyes narrowed "What do you mean?"

"It would be difficult to replace her here in your church-work, would it not?"

The clergyman returned to his candid anist in the village, and is invaluable to me, especially in the Sunday-school"

"I am disposed to consider her interests, and not those of the mother and father, or even the church," pursued Serviss "I a as of chief ie of battle "The race! Oh, you inexorable men of science! What do we care for the race? We would save individuals The race can take care of itself The race is only an abstraction--it cannot suffer Of what avail to the individual to know that the race is to be perfected a thousand years hence?"

"We wander," interposed Serviss, with decision "The question is really quite sihter to New York to study e to son herself to the common lot of women Her talent should determine"

A dull flush rose to the cheek of the preacher, his eyes fell and his voice unconsciously softened "Marriage is still a long way off for Viola Lambert; she is but a child, and, besides--" He paused

Serviss s in the West, I believe Besides, she must be twenty, and quite robust"

"She see to his clericalin the hypocritical tone of his speech angered and disgusted Serviss, and to hiirl pass out of his control" Then aloud he reopened the discussion: "It all coirl's talent If it is sufficient to enable her to earn a living in soo; if not, she should certainly stay here I believe in the largest possible life for every huitier to escape from this life She hints at some sort of mysterious persecution She has not defined her troubles in detail, but I inferred that some undesirable suitor made life lance at Clarke