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Morton went to his work nextquite unfitted for an especially delicate piece of dissection which he had in hand He bungled it, and Weisslare of disapproval "My boy, these social gayeties do not consort ith science"

The young man smiled to think hoide of the mark his chief was He held up both hands "I swear, it shall not happen again" Then, moved by a desire to secure a comment on the curious phenomena of the séance, he related the story of his brief intervieith his uncle Ben's ghost "Now, do you suppose that Clarke, or the 'otten luet hold of a queer fact like that nicknao so far round?" inquired Weissmann "Why not say it was your uncle Ben who spoke?"

"You are joking"

"I a If the facts are as you say, then one explanation is as reasonable as the other"

Serviss was amazed "You don't really mean it!"

"If you say it was an illusion of the sense of hearing, I agree; but do we not stagger a illusions? Who so well as we know the illusory nature of every fact? Nothing is stable under our hands Of what avail to reduce the universe to one substance, as the monists do? We pry, we peer into that substance--it fades like s the cells of the body--the finalonce demonstrated 'the final division of ible and the iiven my whole life to discover Life is an illusion--why not death? Shall we dog? The spirit world is unthinkable, but so, at the last analysis, is the world ofthis to be only the ument of the dualists better than they knew it themselves, rematism of Haeckel is as vain as the assumption of Metchnikoff We shall forever discover and forever despair Such is the life of man"

When he went ho that she had received a e from Viola and that she would be at hoo I have to pour tea for Sally, or I would go with you I' the whole thing over with Doctor Safford She thinks as I do, that the girl is exactly what she claio on, she ought to be protected froar public We both want you to take her in hand Certainly there ought to be no disgrace in standing as interpreter between the living and the dead Isn't it just our foolish prejudice? If the girl can bring ht to be honored above all other wo et too interested in her, of course, but e call a disease iven power Think of the e run after a foolish, vulgar woman who has married into irl because she has soift which science doesn't understand If one teenty, tiny bit of what they claiht to cherish her As Marion said, if she had discovered a star so far off and so faint it wouldn't matter in the least to any one but a few cranks whether it existed or not, she would be honored all over the world; but as she clai vital to every human soul, she is despised It is your duty to help her I had her over the 'phone just now, and her voice was treerness as she said, 'Do tell him to please come and see me'"