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"Yes, but is it the same?" interrupted Stern suddenly, his practical turn ofitself "Don't you see a difference? You remember the old-time face in the moon, of course Where is it now? The moon always presented only one side, the same side, to us in the old days How about it now? If I' now at soer disarrangement of the solar systes than you or I suspect!

"Wait till we get back to New York for half a day, and visit the tower and gather up our things Wait till I get hold of ain! Perhaps soo on this way, surrounded by perpetual puzzles, proble but rest now!" she dictated with hed

"Well, you're the boss," he answered, and leaned back against the oak "Only, may I propound one more question?"

"Well, what is it?"

"Do you see that dark patch in the sky? Sort of a roughly circular hole in the blue, as it were--right there?" He pointed "Where there aren't any stars?"

"Why--yes What about it?"

"It'sthe stars, and cuts their light off; and one night it grazed the moon--passed before the eastern limb of it, you understand Made a partial eclipse You were asleep; I didn't bother you about it But if there's a new body in the sky, it's up to us to knohy, and what about it, and all So the quicker--"

"The quicker you get well, the better all around!"

She drew his head down and kissed hie, innate maternal instinct which makes women love to "mother" men even ten years older than themselves

"Don't you worry your brains about all these proble well is the s on just that! Do you realize what it means? Do you?"

"Yes, as far as the hues, arts, science, all in again on any higher plane than just the level of our collective intelligence All that the world knows to-day is stored in your brain-cells and mine! And our speech, our methods, our ideals, will shape the whole destiny of the earth Our ideals! We must keep them very pure!"