ct for her intellect and scholarly attainments. Her unfortunate love for a man whom he honestly believed to be a totally unfit mate for her was the only shadow tha

he question; but there is a silence more eloquent tha

her back. She was a little paler than usual, and there was a s

ad, to say good-bye. I told

tender dignity which made him feel prouder than ev

her through a little mist in his eyes, "He spoke most honourably

er is ended, it will only hurt us both to say any more about it. Now, I h

?" he asked, looking up at

r old friend, Professor Hoskins van Huysman, and his wife and daughter have come to London, and will stay ten days before 'proceeding' to Paris and the

harlatan, confound him! I shouldn't wonder if he had t

let your-well, your scientific feelings get mixed up with social matters, will you? Because, you know, I like Brenda very

w," interrupted the Prof

tured thing, so good-hearted and so deliciously American. Of course, you can fight with the Professor as much as

interfere with your social pleasures, you may be quite sure. Science, as you know, has nothing to do with what we call Society, except as one of the most curious phenomena of Sociology. Drive into town whene

un in this afternoon and have tea. Oh! and, by the way," she added, as he turned towards the house, "there's anot

I shall be delighted to see him-but I don't know

or van Huysman's personal fortune was not as great as his attainments or his fame, Brenda would be very rich, for her mother was the only sister of a widower whose sole interest and occupation in l

n, who had done brilliantly at Cambridge, and then devoted himself to Egyptian exploration with a whole-souled ardour which had quickly won Professor Marmion's hear

promisingly. Who could better console him than this beautiful and brilliant American girl, and what would better suit

ntiate of Literature and Art, and Gold-Medallist in Higher Mathematics at t

tellectual features. Instead of sitting down to his desk, he lit a pipe and began walking up and down the room, comm

ists in America, and he had also gained distinction in applied mathematics. In addition to this, he was the inventor of many marvellous contrivances for the demon

can on the "Co-Relation of the Etheric Forces in the Phenomena of Light and Heat," and of course he had never forgiven him. From that day forth a relentless duel of wits between them had continued. Ever

ds. What they really thought of each other was known on

could, if he chose, smite him hip and thigh, in a strictly scientific sense, and reduce him to utter confusion and public ridicule, and the question wh

matter out with no more emotion than a calculating machine would have betrayed, and he had come to a conclusion that was absolutely luminous and just: bu

demonstration that religious, social, and physical laws, may, under certain changing circumstances, be both true and false at the same time. I am, or was-or whatever it is-perfectly right in considering that to deliber

h his mind not wholly unoccupied with speculations as to what Professor Van Huysma

olars in the world. Both the Greek and the Alexandrian philosophers speculated on the possibility of a state of four dimensions; and didn't Cayley, before this very Soc

d learned audience out of its seven senses; but, as for mere mathematics-well, I may make them stare, and set a good many highly-respected brains-my gifted friend Huysman's, among them-work

nth Proposition. This done, he plunged into a fresh vortex of figures, and symbols, and diagrams, in which he remained for the next two hours, his mind hovering, as it were, over the borderland w

es, which Nitocris had made for him-thinking the while how easy it would have been for him in th

SS IN THE HIGH

le out carefully,

ME SUPPOSED MATHEMATI

theme, adequately treated, will considerably astonish my learned fr

nklin Marmion had certainly recrossed the divi