Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 7, 1925 — page 61: what you’re looking at

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WHERE SHE BELONGS. So. he stretched his legs beneath the. table with exaggerated unconcern and nodded slowly and himself smiled once more ae found something to say. “ Well, anyway, Nellie, » he said amiably, * you eek up your Scientific career in a blaze of glory, didn’t you?” eA Oe what?” Dr, quickly, -““T say, you finished your scientific ca- reer in a blaze of glory.” | “Finished it?” Dr, Harkton - ested. “Why, I’ve just begun it!” — Samuel sat up suddenly. They ae to be coming back to solid ground. “Oh, now, see here, Nellie,” said he, = enough of a thing is enough. You know how I feel about your being outside the house so much, I’m entitled to some con- — sideration, even if I don’t go around dis- covering elements and things. Of course I have no objection to your tinkering at that sort of stuff around the home. For that matter, whatever you want fixed up in the way of a laboratory PH have fixed” up in the attic. But as for any more of - this chasing us to the city every day— nix! Dr. Harkton 1 was gazing at him with as much amazement as she might have ome at even another new element. “Why, you’re—you’re incredible!” ” she breathed. ““ Maybe so, my dear, but—” “Tt isn’t possible, Sam that even you fancy that I might abandon my work, might sacrifice everything—my own in- clination, the good I may be able to do the world. everything—solely because you. —oh, but that isn’t. possible, of course,” Dr. Harkton laughed. And at the sound of this Jaugh, which tinkled down from some rare spot millions of miles above his own personal sphere, a strange and nameless weakness came upon Samuel. He essayed a stern frown: no failure could have been more absolute. = * “ Well, that—that stand’s all right i in one way,” he submitted weakly, “ but ae the same time you owe something to—” “ Oh! There’s Jo!” cried the queer of phlomahy, and pees from the table, ZF ~ dash upon her elder her arms as she cried: == Harkton — asked Sam,” Helen smiled kindly. “appreciate it, of course, but I’ve started a~ ‘hurried along. _ There, indeed, seemed to be Jo. Samuel a numbly in her direct ter flushed and with shining eyes—saw her. sister and. infold her in = * Oh, Nell! It’s wonderful! You're won- pwre marvelous!” De : “Werkton, doubtless, responded ap- Sopdet Samuel did not hear, Samuel was trying to think. He had not estab- lished his authority as head of the house;- that was one point beyond dispute. - Some-_ thing had happened to that authority and to. himself—he seemed to have been picked up by some invisible force and simply swept into the background—and unfamiliar as this particular location was to Samuel Harkton, he seemed unable ‘to StaEE to the fore again, For the moment, that was to say. As he breathed heavily, he knew that within a few minutes he would be quite himself “again. He rose mecrecivde te noted that both sisters had vanished toward the door of the home and that the door ‘was opening now - and people were talking, ‘Then Dr. Harkton, buttoning her long, plain coat, came foward him again. : ~~ Sam jo will look after the children—I mean she brought her things this time and _ she'll sleep here.” “ Well, aren reek you figuring on ‘sleeping here?” Samuel gasped. “For two or three days, I don’t know, perfectly terrific excitement in our little circle, and that sort of thing has its re- - well sponsibilities, which I can’t ver evade.” — | = Well—certainiy? But that has nothing to-do with your sleeping—” _“Tve prepared one paper, and last night — I almost finished dictating the other to the girl at the Foundation, and she’ll have it ready for me this morning,” Dr. Harkton given out for publication, and there are two rival societies—each of them. wants me to read my paper before it first, you know —and there are—oh, a thousand and one ~— other things that—” OO ction, saw her en-— as You Sone “Those will have to be cS (Eo) EComicboo im <=