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XXX (Continued)
filo own room. where he was
Gnarly always alone. with its warm
red curtains and rug. the low book-
C‘lu built under his direction and
mind with his favorite books. the
"factory table and other pieces of
“It. old English oak that he had
a‘HI’UI'bught from home. and several
family portraits on the wall. ro~
watered his equilibrium and his
"“"b‘faln was abnormally clear. lie
‘wmlendered if he ever would sleep
again. Better think it over now.‘
Mary Zattiany as she talked had
. Ineyer changed her expression. She
,unlght have been some ancient or-
"t'lcle reciting her credo. and she
seemed to have narcotized that
"magnetic currwat that had always
~7'vfirated between them. Neverthe-
‘ iéi'a, he had been fully aware that
she felt like nothing less than an
oracle or the marlil: bust she
had. and that her soul was
9£§ocked and possibly fainting. but
mastered by her formidable will.
Formidable. Did that word best
,ngpress her? Was she one of the
~'iuperwomen who could find no
._..mate on earth and must look for
lie cer-
."_fllnly was no superman himself
’ .
- to breathe on her piano and mate
5 “‘Ttthat incarnate will. liad she any
5 IW'llll'man weakness? Even that sub-
E terranean sex-lite in her past had
: ,npi. been due to weakness. She was
E "l‘dr too arrogant for that. Life had
I mgheen her footstooi. She had kicked
g It' about contemptuously. Even her
been the die-
"n‘fa'tes of her imperious will. And
”her pride! She was a female Luci-
!er in pride.
No doubt the men she had dis-
missed had been secretly relieved:
stung for the only time in their
lives perhaps, with a sense of in-
feriority. it must have been‘like
°ceiving the casual favors of a
fieen on her throne. Well. she
had got it in the neck once: there
was some satisfaction in that. He
wished he knew the man’s name.
He'd hunt him up and thank him in
behalf of his sex.
For an hour he excoriated her.
hated her, feared her. dissociating
her from the vast army of woman-
hood. but congratulating himself
Ipon having known her. She was a
unique if crucifying study.
With restored youth superim-
posed upon that exhaustive knowl-
edge of life—every phase of it that
counted in her calculations—the
' ‘I‘ejuvenation of all her great natu-
ral endowments. she'd probably go
[back and rule Europe! What use
could she possibly have for any
. man?
-. . He made himself a cup of codes
over‘glis electric stove, turned off
. ,. the malodorous gas. which aifected
his head. stood out on his balcony
for a moment. then lit his pipe and
l-rfslt in a more mellow mood.
After all. she had suffered as
only a woman so liberally endowed
" "“could suffer. and over a long period
"“of years. She had known despair
and humiliation and bewilderment.
""Isthargic hopelessness. and finally
W"! complete sacrifice of self. llis
imagination. in spite of his rebel-
..£
,, __lious soul. had furnished the back-
.
it
we
' ground for that bald recital.
And she must have an indomi-
table soul. some inner superfine
‘s'pirltual essence, with which arro-
W‘flsnce and even pride had less to
do than she imagined. Otherwise.
after the life she had led. she
Stifhould either have become an im-
33’" erious. uncomfortable old woman
52301’ one of those faltering nonenti.
, WNV'Iies crowded into the backwaters
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life by a generation which in-
mwapires them with nothing but tim-
“"" idity and disapproval. Towering in-
"“"mvidualitios often go down to de-
V rainhat in old age.
M“‘And nothing co‘uld alter the fact
gum: she was the most beautiful and
' be most wholly desirable woman
i had ever known. the one woman
ho had focussed every aspiration
of his mind, his soul, and his body.
He knew ht must ask himself the
inevitable question and face it with-
out blinking. Was he appalled by
- her real age: could he ever get
. Way from the indubioua fact that
whatever miracle science may have
enacted. her literal age was verg-
".1 tag on sixty? if she were not an
old woman she had been one. That
_ ' utiful body had withered. unde-
‘a‘r‘ed of all men. that perfect face
had been the battered mirror of an
w aged ago. He did not ask himself
the metamorphosis would last. if
We shell might not wither again to-
morrow. He was abreast of the im-
aflportant scientific discoveries of his
{day and was not at all astonished
are... the problem of senescence
v
" euld be solved. It was no more
‘ ‘ ”anal-table than wireless. the Ron:-
W w my, the properties of radium.
it“ my one of the beneflcent con-
tributions of science to ths well-
“ of mankind that wars now
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passionately. lie would never fee
more emotionless than now;
of him.
get it?
ering of flesh? But he knew the
stowed upon mankind is the talen
for forgetting.
sleep again.”
sent-minded replies
about the weather.
look at Mary Zattiany for thre
imprudent marriage -— th
And if a. man i
often
urge of the race.
h er.
pletely satisfied as atman may be.
temporaries. They would discus
the phenomenon furiously,
had been. back water, return on
and then forget it.
than himself.
waiting and no longer.
was that.
Did he want. children?
more extended. Moreover.
duty to the race is stronger. 7. . .
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too familiar for discussion. He had
heard a good deal of this particular _
No
doubt Dinwiddie and Osborne would
soon be appearing as gay young
sparks on her doorstep. 'lt might be
the greatest discovery of all time.
but it certainly would work both
“'hile its economic value
might be indisputable, and even. as
she had suggested. its spiritual. it
would be hard on the merely young.
The mutual hatreds of capital and
labor would sink into insignificancs
before the antagonism between euc
0n
the other hand it might mean the
threat of over-
population—for man's architectonic
powers were restored if not wonto
to say nothing of his pro-
longed sojourn—would at last rouse
the law-makers to the imperious
necessity of eugenics, birth control.
sterilization of the unfit, and the
expulsion of undesirable races. It
might even stimulate youth to a
higher level than satisfied it at
present. Human nature .might at-
However. he was in no mood for
abstract speculation. His own prob-
M
the
questions he had to face and ex.
amine them one by one. and dia-
and
that mental state was very rare
that enabled a man to think clearly
and see further than a. yard ahead
ller real age? Could he ever for-
Should he not always see
the old face under the new mask,
as the X—Rays revealed man's hide-
ous interior under its merciful cov-
one of the most beneflcent gifts be-
l‘articularly when
one object has been displaced by
another. Reiteratlon dulls the mem-
ory. He might say to himself every
hour in the day that she was sixty
"He wondered if he would ever
not thirty and the phrase would
soon become as meaningless as ab-
to remarks
And be doubted if any man could
consecutive minutes and recall that
she had ever been old. or imagine
that she ever could be old again.
However prone man may be to
dream. he is. unless one of the vi-
sionaries. dominated by the pres-
ent. What he wants he wants now
and he wants what he sees. not
what may be lurking in the future.
That is the secret of the early and
not deterred by mere financial con-
siderations. still less is be troubled
by visions of what his insmorata
will look like thirty years hence or
what she might have looked like
bad disease prematurely withered
He sees what he sees and if
he is satisfied at all he is as com-
He made no doubt that Mary Zet-
tlany would have. if she chose. as
many suitors among men of his
own age as among her former con-
joke
abo‘ut it. try to imagine her as she
of curiosity. hesitate. speculate-—
No one would forget it sooner
He had no doubt
whatever that when he went to her
house tomorrow afternoon he would
remember as long as she kept him
So fillet
They
charmed him—sometimes—but be
had never been conscious of any do-
sire for a brood of his own. Ha-
knew that many men felt an even
profounder need of olfapring than
womeh. Man’s ego is more strb
dent. the desire to perpetuate itself
more insistent. his foresight is
how-
ever sub-consciously, his sense of
But be doubted if any man would
weigh the repetition of his ego
against his ego's demand to mats
with a woman like Mary lattiany.
He certainly would not. That was'
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