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Mrs Laht, and her husband soon drew her away to their own seat, leaving the young people together, a deed for which Morton silently, but none the less fervently, thanked hi-desired personal explanation
The car was sparsely occupied and the section opposite was quite e quite alone with Viola, he lightly began: "I feel like a truant school-boy, and I' when his 'first-assistant' fails to appear"
"I hope you are not neglecting your work for--for us," she said, losing a little of her brightness
"Nothing will suffer I do not profess to be the main prop of our laboratory, and, besides, I don't care I'm off for a holiday, whether or no" At the word "holiday" Clarke's grisly shadow rose between them and would not down To the suicide his holiday was due
Viola again seely said: "I am troubled about Mr Clarke I must write him a letter and tell hiin to feel sorry for hi to reproach yourself for, and you would better let hilad the wrench is over," he decisively replied
She sighed and shivered a little "He kneere deserting hiood-bye He will be very lonely without us"
"He is too fanatic to win my sympathy, and he has forfeited yours"
"But he was sincere, professor He really wanted to make the world happier"
He was resolute to keep her ht of Clarke, and imperiously said: "Don't call s than Clarke We are well out of his shadoorld, and you are never to re-enter it I want you to forget that you ever sat in a 'circle' or heard a 'voice'"
"Oh, I can't expect to pass entirely out of that," she exclaih the possibility came near her for the first time "On mother's account I must continue to sit now and then She couldn't live without her coht him face to face with his opportunity, and he seized itsoht I do not pretend to fully understand the basis of your mother's faith, and I do not blanation that you should be called upon to suffer bondage to the dead I rebel against it" His voice was tense with feeling "And I will not have it so I lunched to-day with Dr Tol your case to hi your naave ood physical health, he said, irl"