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It was , and the sun blazed down upon the hill-side with the scorching breath of a volcano He turned into his hut,--it was a dark, cool little dwelling, cole inhabitant There was a camp-bed in one corner--and there were a couple of wicker chairs th couches if so required, A good sized deal table occupied the centre of the living-room,--and on the table was a clear crystal bowl full of what appeared at a first glance to be plain water, but which on closer observation showed a totally different quality Unlike water it was never still,--so perpetuallyout tiny flashes as though the s to escape from it--while it exhaled around itself an atmosphere of extreme coldness and freshness like that of ice Seaton threw himself indolently into one of wicker chairs by the indohich was broad and wide, co a full view of distant limpse of sea

"I a aloud to himself--"Now--WHY? Why aives no answer! If she were here she would boreShe would ask me questions--and if I answered them she would not understand,--she is too stupid She has no co beyond siana--"

He stopped in his talk, and started as if he had been stung Some subtle influence stole over him like the perfumed mist of incense--he leaned back in his chair and half closed his eyes What was the stealthy, creeping netic power that like an invisible hand touched his brain and pulled at his ure clad in white, with a rope of gold hair twisting, snake-like, down over its shoulders and glistening in the light of the moon? For the moo on the white flood of a dreaana,--one of accident, not design--in the great laboratory of a distinguished scientist,--he had taken her for a little girl student trying to master a few principles of cheuished scientist himself had introduced her as "one of our most brilliant theorists on the future developether absurd, applied to a little fair creature with beseeching blue eyes and gold hair! They had left the laboratory together, walking some way in company and charmed with each other's conversation, then, when closer acquaintance followed, and he had learned her true position in social circles and the power she wielded owing to her vast wealth, he at once withdrew froestion of any sordid motive for his friendship But she had so sweetly reproached him for this, and had enticed him on--yes!--he swore it within himself,--she had enticed hirip" she had of scientific problems in which he was interested and which puzzled hiht unravel a skein of wool Her clear brightness of brain and logical precision of argu to his ist that "Fro woman had lived in another world than man Formed of finer vibrations and consequently finer chemical atoms she is in touch with more subtle planes of existence and of sensation and ideation She holds unchallenged the code of Life" Then admiration yielded to the usual under-sense of ainst fe wrath and opposition took the place of his former chivalry and the almost tender pleasure he had previously felt in her exceptional genius and ability And there ca--why did he think of it now, he wondered?--when, after a brilliant suiven at the beautiful residence of a noted society woana out into their hostess's garden which sloped to the sea, and they had strolled together alht of the moon, the Atlantic waves, sunken to little dainty frills of lace-like foa suddenly to his companion, was all at once saroith diamonds in her hair and on her boso-stroke of passion which burnt his soul as a desert is burnt by the hot breath of the siht the small, fine, fairy creature in his arms and kissed her wildly on lips and eyes and hair And she,--she had not resisted Then--as swiftly as he had clasped her he let her go--and stood before her in a strange spirit of defiance