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"But--but--you are interested in hiested

"Interested? Oh, yes! Who would not be interested in a man who says he can destroy half the world if he wants to! He assumes to be a sort of deity, you know!--Jove and his thunderbolts in the shape of a man in a badly cut suit of hter "And every one in the roo to ine it! ME, hed again--then grew suddenly serious "To think of such a thing! Fancy ME!--givingof a scientific wizard who, if he chose, could reduce me to a little heap of dust in two minutes, and no one any the wiser! Thank you! The sensational press has been pretty full lately ofmyself to the list of victims! Men ARE brutes! They were born brutes, and brutes they will remain!"

"Then you don't like him?" persisted Lydia, ue wonder at the strange brilliancy of coana a beauty quite unattainable by features only--"You're not set on hier

"Listen!" she said--"Isn't that a lovely valse? Doesn't the arland ofhuman microbes it is!--as far as heaven from earth! If we could really obey the call of that s and fly to such wonderful worlds!--as it is, we can only hop round and round likeourselves for an hour or two! But the hter tone went on--"And you think I would marry? I would not --which there isn't!--and as for Roger Seaton, I certainly aantly put it! And he's not 'set' onnear an openas she spoke, and she looked up at the dark purple sky sprinkled with stars She continued slowly, and with eht--have helped hi more!"