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"You are quite mistaken, sir Miss Lambert has ainst entanglements of that kind I have sho they would interfere with her work"

"You ain took on the narrowed glance of suspicion "Partly that, but her hich I hope to see her do"

"To what do you refer?"

"Pardon me, of that I cannot at present speak; I can only say that it is a hose prelies can be passed as well here as in New York City--better, in fact"

"You arouseand becaed the subject "Before you go I want to ask you--do you, as a chemist, deny the immortality of the soul?"

"Chemistry does not concern itself with the soul"

"Do you, as a man, deny the immortality of the soul?"

"I neither deny nor affirm I have never concerned myself with the question"

Clarke was a little daunted "You leave the ated!"

"Yes, because I was long ago convinced that the problein of life, is insoluble, and aste time on the insoluble? To pore upon the constitution of matter is a species of mediævalism I am concerned hat bacteria do--not what they are"

"I deny that the question of i with the fire of his faith "It is because you scientists ignore the phenoes which come from the other side"

"What other side?"

"The realht up a book "There is the word of a German scientist, a hundred times reat Englishated and have been convinced of the return of the dead"

"I know those men," replied Serviss, coldly "The common opinion is that they ceased to be scientists when they wrote these volumes All were past their prime and bereaved, and one was nearly blind Their true balance of judgment was lost before they set to work on what you call their investigations The German was considered insane on the 'Fourth Diirl to do with your 'reals to the real you to reht to throw over her the shadow of your religious perplexities any e of parasitic growths Youth, and especially young wohts, and one of the faith; why destroy hers? Your doubts and despairs should not touch her But they have She is troubled and sad by reason of your attitude towards life, and especially by your insistence upon the presence of death in the world"