it you will have it"--.
ry detail. You've made us feel
'th ‘ss young as yourself and :3
as Methaselah.’
flsdame Zattiany smiled smiably
lad lingered in the pleasant spaces
34’ of middle age. "Very well. 1'“ be
as little technical as possible.
‘1 . . . As you know, i ran a hos-
ital in Buds Pesth during the war.
fter the revolution broke out I
V s’ forced to leave in secret to es-
holng murdered. l was on
Kun's iist"-— 0 .
‘ re was a sympathetic rustle
'the group. This at least they
a could grasp on the wing. Mrs. do
Lacey interrupted to beg for excit-
.\ lug details. but Mrs. Goodrich and
-“* Mrs. Tracy cried simultaneously:
‘ “N0! Nol Go on-pleasei".
"Quite right." said Mrs. Ogle~
thorns. who was prepared to en-
Joy hersclL “We can have thtt
ter." '
"i naturally went to Vienna. not
only because I had some money in-
Tested there, but because I could
live in the Zittiany Palace. The
'old house was didicult to keep
‘ arm, and as i was too tired and
nervous to struggle with any new
rohlems I went at firiend's sug-
' cation into a sanitarium.
"The doctor in charge soon be-
~~n to pay me something more
an perfunctory visits when he
und‘rthat intelligent conversation
ter my long dearth did me more
d than harm. Finally he told
stirs. method'ef' treatment that
~ isht restore youth, and beg-
r'fid me to undo c it”—
' “Ah!" There were sharp in.
1d wrl breaths. Mrs. Vane drew
' ““0” unr-allguralively, for she
could hardly be more perpendicu-
lar. with her unyielding spine. her
he; nnckcncascd in whaleboned
wet and her lofty head topped off
' with feathers. A loci: of hostility
dawned in several pairs of eyes.
while frank distaste overspread
",htrs. lluylcr’s mahogany visage.
' Madame Zattiany went on nnpen
gdrbed.
_ "i: may relieve your minds to
m r that l was at first as indiflerv
m. as all of you no doubt would
has-o but. The war—and many
other things—had made me pro-
’ _‘ dly tired of life—something, of
fine. that i do not expect you to
rstnnd. And now that the wt?
over and my usefulness at an
I, , i had nothinx to look forward
We fbut the alleviation 3! poverty by
“Dunn of my wealth when it was
”filtered, and this could be done by
tmsrmrs. Life had seemed to me
to consist mainly of repetitions. l
had run the gamut. But [began to
be intnrostod. at first by the fact
that scinnce might be able to so»
nempllsh a miracle where centu-
es of woman's wit had allot!"—
‘ Wlt’" snorted Mrs. ans. “Ig-
lo Hnity." .
' ‘ ell. call it that if you llhe. but
dwre to be young again or to
chievt- its simulacrum. in both
men and women. has something of
afraid «limity which the centuries
it‘ ivv to all antiques. However. 3?
in the time. you will also be glad to
g f‘ } itnow. l was far more interested in
the prowect of re-energiflng' my
worn mlt mind and body. 1 was so
.morluily tired! And if i ass to‘
‘iiva on. and no doubt with" still
i
.m‘
u
t in your place—yes. l would!”
gist disgusted eye of In. 78“
its right. was: is seis‘acs see
) yhowf"
it
7 I.” “mod to minim"
funnel ms the nuances-ma
the. simplest language she could
, tag. 'I dislike holding forth.
Don't leave out a wordi' ex-
imed ldra. Tracy. "We want
the one woman in the room who
"forfeited what little mental health ~
visioned—when they thought about
tisn woman would. it was not only
tiy indecent. Mrs. Vane drew hack
seemed to the amused Mrs. Ogle-
thorpe that . she withdrew her
or the movies; at all events drains
in private life. among the elect.
was Motive. external, and, how- -
“ever oilenslve. particularly when
screamed in the divorce court. it‘
I“. at least. like the old' diseases.
”Willy normal. But an into-s
titan-drama: noLto purtoo one s‘
point on it. a drama of one's lap
“But what did they do to f' .
icd Mrs. Tracy; "rd have, »
1t? id defiantly as she mac-asst V
‘glsoulla‘h. ,Drunr orally sort in:
1‘ think Countess messy «(31“me old unsung-room.
.Vseatwhessu that urea-suing
was finalised to avoid technical
terms." ‘ , * a. '
Mine httiany explained in
-mm the meaning and ‘the
tu‘nctiu at: the deaths glands.
The mod intelligent among them
inched gratified. for the painless
achievements: fresh knowledge is
‘ new“, um. ,
a!
a pleasant thing. Madame zattisny
went on patiently: “Then glands
in my case had undergone a natu-
ral process of exhaustion. In wo-
men the slower functioning of the
sndodrlnes is coincident with the.
climacteric. as they have/been de- "
pendent for stimulation upon cer-
tain ovarian cells. 'i'haidea in-
volved is that the stimulation of
these exhausted cells would cause ‘
the other glands to function once ‘
more at full strength and a certain l
rejuvenation ensue as a matter
course: unless. cf'conrse. they a;
withered beyond the power of i-
encs. l was a promising subject.
for examination proved that my on
guns were healthy. my arteries
soft: and l was not yet sixty. Only
experimentation could reveal wheth-
er or not there was still any life
left in the cells. although 1 respond-
ed favorably to the preliminary
tests.’ The upshot was that i can-
sented to the treatment—"
"Yes? Yes?" Every woman in
the room now sat forward. no long
er old friends or rivals, affectionate
or resentful. nor the victims of con-
vention solidified into sharp black
and white by the years. They veers
composite female.
"It consisted of the concentration _
of powerful Rontgen—what you call ’
IqRaysc-on that portion of the
body covering the ovaries—"
"How horrible!” “Did you feel
as if you were being electrocutedf"
"Are you terribly scarred?"
“Not at all. i felt nothing what;-
ever. and there was nothing to
cause scars——-’
“But i thought that the X-Rays—‘i
“Oh. do be quiet. Louisa." en
claimed Mrs. Tracy impatiently.
"Please go on, Countess Zattiany.‘
“As I said. the application was
painless. and if no benefit results.
neither will any harm be done
when the Rays are administered by
a conscientious expert. My final
consent. as i told you, was due to
the desire to regain my old will
power and vitality. i was extreme-
iy skeptical about any effect on my
personal appearance. During the
tlrst month i felt so heavy and dull
that. in spite of assurances that
these were favorable symptoms, I
was secretly convinced that i had
i had retained; but was consoled
by the fact that I slept all night i
and a part of the day: i had s'uf-
fered from insomnia since my duo
ties at-the hospital had ended "
“But surely you must have been
nervous and terrified 1" All of
those women had seen and suffered
illness. but all from time-honored
visitstions. even’if under new and
technical names, and they had suf-
fered in common with millions of
others. which. if it offended their
sense of exciusiveness. at least
held the safeguard of normalcy.
They felt a chill of terror. in some
cases of revulsion. as Madame Zatp
tiany went on to picture this abnor-
mal renaissance going on in the
body unseen and unfelt: in the
body of one who had been cast in
thecommon mold. subject to the
common fate. and whom they had
her at all-as.growlng old with
themselves: as any natural Chrisr
mysterious and terrifying but sub-
from her eager poise. Almost it
skirts. Drama was for the stage
1 to dismiss after they had
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