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Mrs Rice expressed the convictions of , humorously: "No, I don't want to be saved I'm not lost I don't know as I care for iet bored; anyhow, the future -roouest His frank, boyish ways, his careless dress, his freedoood-fellowship deceived thehi himself; but Weissmann, as qualified to know, said: "He has persistency, concentration, a keen ed, ination, not to those rite books or poees, invent new motors, and play with electrical currents as if they were ribbons The novelist basing himself on what he knows of human nature projects himself into the unknown, just as the scientist who stands on the discoveries of those before him feels out into the darkness for new stars, new forces And yet as Clarke and his party indignantly declared, "both novelist and scientist ignore the question most vital to us all--the question of the soul's survival after death"--ignore it till soonize in secret over the o back to their work, concealing the conviction which their hour of anguish brought to then, which had brought this vigorous young investigator face to face with aout for solution--certainly it was not without craft that the unseen powers had baited their hook with the alirl If there is logic in the shadow, fate was on Viola's side