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This was not precisely what Serviss had started out to say, but as he went on a sense of beinginto the hands of the ene conviction which had seized hiers behind his head, and, looking at his visitor beneath lowered, conte of what you're talking about"

The note of patronization, the tone of superior wisdoyman's reply not merely opposition, but insult His very pose was an affront

"I don't know your motives, that is perfectly true, but I can infer the in where I am not wanted; but as Mr and Mrs Lairl is morbid and unhappy here, and I shall tell them to send her away for a time She has o East to study"

The preacher's smile deepened into a sneer "I think I understand yourWhat is there to restrain a nizes neither spirit nor God?"

Serviss was at first astounded, then hot at the grossness of this insinuation, and his strong, brown hands clinched in the instinct to punish--to retaliate--but his anger cooled to the level of words, and he said: "This interview has more than convinced me of the justice of Laain and repeat the warning I have already given" And with these words he turned and went out

It ith a sense of astonishht, for the sunset gloas not yet out of the sky A ht darkness, and lo! here noere the splendid peaks, the singing river, all agloith golden light The encounter of the moment before receded swiftly, became incredible, but the preacher remained squat in his den like a vampire in his cave

As he went slowly up the street he acknowledged a feeling of groeight, of uncertainty Having given his word in such wise, he had beco that was reassuring His youth seemed to have suddenly taken on care His vacation had ended in a cloud of distrust From the detachment of the scientist he had descended to the level of a nificant of all, a irl