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"Very often! Marja Sklodowska Curie, for example, has pulled rateful enough to acknowledge it One of the greatest woe, she is allowed to reh he called her a 'genius,' had not the generosity or largeness of h, of course, like all really great souls she is indifferent to praise or blaar like the beating of the cheap-jack's dru is known of her private life,--not a photograph of her is obtainable--she has the lovely dignity of complete reserve She is one of my heroines in this life--she does not offer herself to the cheap journalist like a ive herself away--neither will I!"

"But you ht benefit the huh with you?"

"Not in the least!"--and she smiled--"The huarden, things rank and gross in nature possess itI have no wish to benefit it It has always murdered its benefactors It deludes itself with the idea that the universe is for IT alone,--it ignores the fact that there are s--presences and personalities as real as itself I aicians called 'elementals'--especially now"

Don Aloysius rose from his chair and put aside his eure silhouetted more densely black by the whiteness of theeffect

"Why especially now?" he asked, almost imperatively--"What has chanced to make you accept the idea--an old idea, older than the lost continent of Atlantis!--of creatures built up of finer life-cells than ours?"

Morgana looked at hi has chanced that causes me any wonder," she said--"or that would 'make' me accept any theory which I could not put to the test for myself But, out in New York while I have been away, a fellow-student of y from some unknown source'--that is, unknown to the scientists of rule-and-line They call his electric apparatus 'an atenerator' Naturally this ienerate' which has till now reo Had I NOT known it I could not have thought out the secret of the 'White Eagle'!"