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"Ach!" he snapped with a sudden change of countenance "I shall be von more naer t'e tables--t'at is gratitude! Vit' t'e vorld we haf at present no concern For t'is, indeed, you bless me--t'at I am not a quack to make public an incolad t'at it is vit' you alone I concern rateful; you are happy because I say t'at you shall be yet ht--"

At the eager shrillness of his voice I drew a step away

"Indeed I'rateful, whether you believe it or not!" I cried "You think all wolad that I alone am in the secret, but you proposed it yourself, and I rejoice as much as you do that some day--by and by--other women will be happy as I am happy--"

"Yes--by and by! You ely, but then he recovered hiht; I vish you to rechoice in your own lofeliness Ve haf engaged toget'er in t'is great vork, and it is vell t'at we bot' haf our revards--I t'at I aggo for t'e benefit of my kind, and you--since vomen cannot lofe t'eir kind, but only intifiduals--you haf t'e happy lofe t'at is necessary to a vo

I couldn't tell him--proud as I am of it--that John had loved me before I ever heard of the Bacillus But I could punish his gibes

"Oh, by the way--I'ive a tea"

Strange to see hi child! But he bravely rallied

"T'at is goot," he said, "you shall tell o about--to be adif up science; not so?"

"Oh, no! I couldn't be a doll, for men to look at and then tire of me I must study the harder--to be worthy--"

The look of his face, of the thin, straight-lipped if up study now, at least," he sneered; "not until you haf t'e perfect beauty You haf need of ! Why, he has just as much need of me! He himself said I was the best subject he could find for the experiment But even if he had finished his ith the Bacillus, he'd rather teach me, a despised wo talent of the brightest Coluht of my beauty is a joy to hireat discovery when he's hiainst Nature It has brought hi-But I shall study He shall see! Not in the laboratory, of course; that is hardly fitting noouldn't go there again except for the lure of promised beauty--can more loveliness be possible? But I do feel the responsibility of beauty The wisest and best will crowd about me, and they must find my words worthy the lips that shape them and the voice that utters And I shall learn from their wisdom