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All of Serviss's well-ordered sympathetic phrases failed him as he listened to the storm of her plea and felt the flame of her passionate protest All doubt of her sincerity, her own honesty, vanished, being utterly burned away by the light in her lovely eyes Her e was real, her desire to escape contaravity "I believe in you," he said, as if co himself to a most momentous enterprise, "and I will help you"

His voice, so , so tender, robbed her of the power to speak She seized his extended hand in both of hers and pressed it hard, the tears in her eyes veiling her soul frolance

As she faced hinetic, so ot all his hesitations and doubts, filled for an instant with an irrational i her as his own, in defiance of the mandates of her world and the conventions of his own But she dropped his hand and turned away, and he went out in a ment sadly clouded by the youthful riot in his blood

At the le-minded in his desire to aid her, to defend her, but the door had hardly closed behind hian to file back, stealthily, silently, along the underways of his brain Her distress began to seem a little too theatric, her troubles self-induced--all but one--madness did in very truth seem to hover over her, a baleful, i darkly, confronted him in the lower hall "Well met, Dr Serviss I'd like a ith you"

"I have a request to make of you," responded Serviss "Miss Lareat distress ofand has asked me to intercede for her She profoundly objects to the use of her name, and I ask--"

Clarke's voice was harsh and sullen as he interrupted: "I have considered her objections and find thehtest objection should be insuperable I don't understand your point of view I can't see by what right you ignore the wish of the human soul most vitally concerned in your crusade You treat her as if she were a rabbit dedicated to the use of a biologic laboratory I am better informed now than e met in your church-study, Mr Clarke I know, not merely Miss Lambert's secret, but your own It reat distinction upon her, but, let me assure you, it will put an ineffaceable stain upon her Furthermore, your tests will end in disaster to yourself and to your cause"