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Upon his return to his desk Serviss was delighted to find a telegra for aThere was a note of decision, al of the despatch, which denoted that theto heart and was prepared for pro near, Serviss closed the lid of his desk and took a car for the station--immensely relieved of responsibility, yet worn and troubled by aspeculations All the way to the depot, and while he stood waiting outside the gates, he pondered on the surprising change in Weissht, and also upon the momentous covenant between them More than ever before he felt the burden and the anic life Around hi--each drop in the flood an i to the spiritist), attended by invisible guardians, watching, upholding, warning--"and the whole earth swarms with a billion other similar creatures with the same needs, the same destiny; for, after all, the difference between a Zulu and a Greek is not -bird and a canary; and to think that this wave ofto-day on the staid old earth, like the swarms of innumerable insects of June, is but one of a million other waves of a million other years To consider, furthermore, that all those who have lived and died are still sentient! What a staggering,to the monist conception there is no line at which we can say here the aniins, so that ants and apes are claimants for immortality If the individual man persists after death, why not his faithful collie? No, this theory will not do It is far less disturbing to think of all these hurrying bipeds as momentary nodes of force--ates opened and another river of travellers, presureat plains of the Middle West, poured forth, quite undistinguishable in general appearance fro his speculation, Morton peered a these faces, not quite sure that he would know Lambert if he saw him As a matter of fact, he would have , quaintly: "Howdy, professor, howdy! What's the state of the precinct?"

He was quite conventional in all outward signs, save for his red-brown co "How are all the folks?" he went on to ask, with a keen glance