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"What do you mean by that?" interposed Pratt, who had co "Do you doubt her powers?"

"I do She will fail, and the failure will be crushing The thing you claim is preposterous Every time science has taken one of your uishirl to face certain exposure A challenge of this blatant kind will rouse thescientists, and if you succeed in getting any really good man to take it up--which I doubt--he will be lory in your defiance Let your scientific men come with their bands of steel, their bolts and bars, their telephones, and their electric traps We defy every material test"

"You are fools--irl to a brazen sche?"

Clarke was contemptuous "That is your point of view Froel of the New Faith What ross and self-satisfied to us ork for the happiness of those who mourn? The world in which we live despises the materialism of yours"

At this moment a new conception of Clarke's plan crossed Serviss's irl in the eyes of nor her to hiht to herself should be your first consideration She is so your fa voice had drawn Mrs Lambert from her room, and she now hurried down the stairith intent to cal of you, Mrs Lambert, to consider well before you consent to this plan Your daughter's name will be a jest from one end of the country to the other It doesn't ard this challenge as a seeking for notoriety Your daughter is about to be flung to the beasts" Seeing so in her eyes, he added, with such intensity his own heart responded: "Will you stake your daughter's reputation, her health, her reason, upon the issue of a voice in the dark?"

"Yes, when the voice is that of her own father He knows the future He will protect her I have no fear"

There was such conviction, such ientle voice, that Serviss was confounded When he spoke, in answer, his voice was lower in key, with a cadence of hopeless appeal