Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 7, 1925 — page 59: what you’re looking at

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WHERE SHE. as a Why, no, it’s. nee do cofigratulate ee you, Nellie. I think it’s: fine. I think it’s ’-said Samuel; for after all, despite | his faults and his egotism, he was a big e of man great,” ‘man—he was the splendid type that can forgive his wife even the discover- ing of a new element. Zs Tell me all about this clement, iz ‘he cade ed heartily. see * About how we—how Tcame to s dikcbver ‘it, do you mean?” Dr. Harkton asked. te Ves. 2) ‘But you’d never- Atiderstand: Son. z= “T certainly would!” said Mr. Harkton, "Tm at least as bright as most of the people who read this paper—and appar- ently it’s assumed that they’re able to un- derstand. Give us the inside story, Nell!” _ “Well, then ” finally determined “that the atomic struc- ture—” “The what?” “The atomic structure of _tellurium was = “ Of what, Nellie?” ecraped Satauel “Of tellurium, When I determined that it wasn’t at all what we had assumed it to be according to the accepted hypothesis of— Oh, you don’t understand!” ticularly when all this front page stuff ‘about you has knocked me as cold as it has!” Samuel submitted rather desperately. “ At the same time, ee mm not. detective. oe tally.” ‘“ Nobody ed that you were, Sam,” = his wife smiled, with elevated “kindness, “ Only let’s not try this.” — “Why - HOES Tm not a scientist—no. But—but— Mrs. Harkton was- cousidering him fix- edly, strangely. Perhaps it was within her heart to punish Samuel for his” shameful exhibition of the night before; equally possible that her next. remark Te- _ flected truly her innermost mind. At any : S and came out of a brief fit. of a browed, : frownin g abstraction. | Eee 2 NG, you re not, 2 hardeare: business,” = said she. = _manded violently. = this. family with three squares. a day for a = good many years, hasn’t it? It built this dle of gilt-ec : in fright. in that ne regal protest—a brand-new —Mrs. Harkton_ hesitated dubiously—“ it began, I suppose, when I mostly Samuel’ s own. Sma or. 4318 Sam—naturally, tem- peramentally, I mean. You’ re—er—in the x «Just i in the hardware business, 2 sighed ‘Dr, Harkton. — “ Well, what the Sam ‘Hil’s the matter with the hardware business, that you have to sneer at it like that?” ‘Mr. Harkton de- “Tt’s been furnishing cers dog-goned fine little bun- ged securities in our safe-de- peat pox, didn’t it? Well, then?” =~ Dr. Harkton. had started back, almost she had raised her hand again, house and stuc : trick that, by the way, and one which rri- ‘tated. Samuel intensely. “Oh, Sam! Please! ce wasn't sneering, 8 De “Harkton smiled. ‘ “Tt was just suggest- ing that hardware doesn’t necessarily equip one for an understanding of research work, and—oh, we needn’t be absurd, need we?” = EI don’t know any reason why we should be absurd,” Samuel said blankly. He tried to read his paper again; he = found himself eaving. a - at aS wife. | who wand go ‘Out. ae “hour a mone of - warning to her family, discover a new ele- _ ment. Even with her hair pulled back like - “Well, maybe I don’t, thoroughly, off- = hand like this. 1 can’t: “pile up a scientific education in fifteen seconds, Nellie, par- hat and her_ owl-glasses and all the fool = gestures. and — airs she was assuming this : morning, she Jeoked much like the Nellie Harkton who was the mother of his children and one of the most Sone young matrons. of Montvale. And she was, -of course. ‘She—why; how ihe devil could she be anything else? This = swell: headed effect was mainly in Samuel’s fevered imagination; the fault, then, was l wobdee. to be sure, in view of the shock he had received: but. at the same time, unless he wished a genuine gap te come between them and to = widen—Heaven alone knew how _ far! it Tecores Samuel to get back to the nat- = == Nei” Sie he genially. att ‘Yes, Same Ves?” said Dr. Floridan: “ Frankly, you fee cca. man — and wife, ‘kid—what is an element?’ 13 LI -com esol