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few moments a distant rumbling indicated that he and the product ot | Dr. Bounder’s wonderful brain were in close communion. | \t dinner, however, he toyed with his food. She noticed that he had | under his eyes. \ren't you well, dear?” she asked Von Blumer jumped as if he had been shot. Well!” he ejaculated. “Well! I should say I was. Simply wonderful.” yi are not hungry.” “Umph. That's the beauty about Bounder' a natural health appetite. Most of us over- ning Mrs. Von Blumer was awakened as usual by the This time, however, she kept quiet. Somehow it men s! to her that it did not last so long as the morning before. And eyes, a the afternoon she also noticed that her husband was ten minutes n getting home. tug: or days passed. One morning she awoke with a dim consciousness something was wrong. Instead of a noise overhead she heard in door uljoining room a peaceful snore. Her tired husband had overslept | pair self, At the breakfast table he appeared a little later than usual. His ] There was a suggestion of sheepishness about him, dl his Ile himself led the way. what ff “1 suppose,” he said, “that just because I gto Pf this morning, you think I'm a backslider.” “Well, I was so relieved not to hear that noise, that I didn’t much care what you were. I hope, dear, you will give it up. I don’t believe 4 will do you a bit of good.” “That's all you know about it. However, for your information, I will tell you that Iam going to give it up. I've found something better.” Mrs. Von Blumer shuddered. AN it?” she asked, timidly. “Bounder is all right in his way doubt he accomplishes grand results. It’s grand to feel machine, It develops | The next me ling overhead didn’t go through that stunt \ For certain people, I have no You may not know it, you may not fully realize the fact, but even in the short time I used his machine > side my chest came up.one inch and a half. Think of it! But the trouble Bounder is that he is too strenuous. Now, Humpton is more Humpton”’— ‘Who is Humpton? isping PP witl scientific Von Blumer gazed at his wife in ill-concealed scorn. “Do you mean to say,” he said, sternly, “that you've never heard of the celebrated Humpton System? It’s done by correspondence through I started in this morning. You won't know me in a week.” Is it anything that makes a noise? “I should say not. No apparatus. Nothing but a rubber ball.” Why not a baby’s rattle cise ont of that, and it has a pleasant jingle.” | Von Blamer’s eye flashed fire. | ) he exclaimed. “no woman could possibly understand a | OF course. | the mail What do you do? “A rubber ball? You can get lots of exer- course. hike this all my honest. high-minded efforts to keep | in the pink of condition—all for your sake, mind you—must be ed with derision. Never mind, madam! I shall go on my way ess. Other great men have been laughed at before. I can ig” he next morning Mrs. Von Blumer was awakened once more—this me by a series of hoarse breathings. Her husband, a large rubber ball | betwcen his shoulder blades, was pressing it into the wall, as he snorted | t i tempt at rhythmic vigor, his eyes nearly popping out | exclaimed Mrs. Von Blumer. “You'll strain. yourseli, 1 n't you feel the wind blowing on you?” r husband stepped forward, and the rubber ball, rele the room. He stooped over, and taking it in his ulate it with his fingers. don't interrupt me.” he muttered. ‘That's a part of the system.” eral days passed—days through which Mrs with considerable anxiety. Her husband—it could not be denied—was | getting more feeble. There about him an affectation of sprightli- ness that did not conceal his listlessness One morning, however, hope sprang up in her breast as she awakened to hear once again the old jamiliar snore. The crisis then was passed. Von Blumer was himself again. 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