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He stood inert--his tall figure erect--his eyes full of strange and ather histowards the table where the bowl of constantly sparkling fluid danced in tiny flashing eddies within its crystal prison, he watched its movement

"There's the clue!" he said--"so little--yet so much! Life that cannot cease--force that cannot die! For me--for me alone this secret!--to do with it what I will--to destroy or to re-create! How shall I use it? If I could sweep the planet clean of its greedy, contentious huood,--but should I care to do this? If God does not care, why should I?"

He lost hi his mind to work, he put paper, pens and ink on the table, and started writing busily--only interrupting hi a stretch of six or seven hours At the end of his self-appointed time, he went out of the hut to see, as he often expressed it, "what the sky was doing" It was not doingto roll ards slowly like a sinking fire-ball He brought out one of the wicker chairs from the hut and set it in the only patch of shade by the door, stretching hi his eyes, composed himself to sleep His face in repose was a re, nobly featured and expressive of power,--an ambitious sculptor would have rejoiced in him as a model for Achilles He was as unlike the modern hideous type of man as he could well be,--and most particularly unlike any specie continent In truth he was purely and essentially English of England,--one of the fine old breed ofthe winds and waves of the north, for who, no death too difficult, provided "the as the bond" His natural gifts of intellect were very great, and profound study had ripened and rounded them to fruition,--certain discoveries in cheht to the attention of his own country's scientists, who in their usual way of accepting new light on old subjects smiled placidly, shook their heads, pooh-poohed, and finally set aside the er Seaton was not of a nature to sink under a rebuff If the Wise Men of Gothae he had to offer them, then the Wise Men of Gotham in Germany or the United States should have their chance He tried the United States and was received with open arms and open minds So he resolved to stay there, for a few years at any rate, and ician Edison, in whose workshops he toiled patiently as an underling, obtaining deeper grasp of his own instinctive knowledge, and further insight into an immense nature secret which he had determined to master alone He had not mastered it yet--but felt fairly confident that he was near the goal As he slept peacefully, with the still shade of a heavily foliaged vine which ra his face from the sun, his whole form in its relaxed, easy attitude expressed force in repose,--physical energy held in leash