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"Because the brain is da with some chemical force he does not entirely understand,--his whole body is charged with its influence, and this it is that gives his forh death-like, is not death If I leave him alone and untouched he will probably expire unconsciously in a few days,--but if--after what I have just told you--you wish ain,--even as a clock is wound up,--I can relax the tension which now paralyses the cells, muscles and nerves, and he will live--yes!--liketiazed with a solemn earnestness at the ih ready for burial Her heart swelled with suppressed euish of the brilliant brain, the strong, self-sufficient nature brought to such ruin through too great an estiive him life!" she whispered--"Give him life for the sake of the woave her a quick, keen glance

"You?"

She shivered at the question as though struck by a cold wind,--then conquering the irl you have just seen He is her world!"

Ardini's brows met in a saturnine frown

"Her world will be an eesture--"A world without fruit or flower,--without light or song! A dreary world! But such as it is,--such as it is bound to be,--it can live on,--a life-in-death"

"Are you quite sure of this?" Morgana asked--"Can any of us, however wise, be quite sure of anything?"

His frown relaxed and his whole features softened He took her hand and patted it kindly

"Signora, you knoell as I do, that the universe and all within it represents law and order Alaw of his system is destroyed, there is chaos and darkness We scientists can say 'Let there be light,' but the fulfilled result 'and there was light' comes from God alone!"

"Why should not God help in this case?" she suggested

"Ah, why!" and Ardini shrugged his shoulders--"How can I tell? My long experience has taught me that wherever the law has been broken God does NOT help! Who knohether this frozen wreck of man has obeyed or disobeyed the law? I can do all that science allows--"