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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA,
TUESDAY, MARCH
1913.
The Half-God
BY ALBERT DORRIROTON.
Author of
"THE RADIUM TERRORS,”
‘•CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN
HOOF,” Etc.
CHAPTER I.
”1 wish these scientists would give
their discoveries a more convincing
name, Fabian. What can one make of
& word like Zeu?”
"Add an 's’ and it stands for a
Greek deity.” Fabian Kromer leaned
over the flower-scented breakfast table
and smiled in his wife’s face. “Cale-
ret and I invented the word, dear. After
spending ten years in producing a grain
of super-radium one is entitled to a
little comic relief.”
“There has been no comic relief to
Prof. Caleret's struggles, Fabian. I
used to see him in that dark laboratory
in Colwyn street assaying and testing
pitchblende extracts with those long
wizard hands of his.”
Fabian smiled at his wife’s earnest
ness of manner. A lengthy notice in
the Times of Prof. Jean- Caleret's* dis
covery had evoked certain questions
from Bernice concerning the therapeu
tic and medicinal value of the new
found 2eu. For months past she had
been aware of his patient interest in the
professor’s work and of his genuine
belief in the almost divine qualities of
the new super-radium. Only Bernice
and Fabian's bankers knew the extent
of the support rendered to Caleret as
his costly experiments proceeded from
month to month.
The professor’s discovery # had already
seized the popular imagination, herald
ing as it did a revolution in modern
surgery, and bringing a promise of re
lief for the pain-ravaged millions of
Europe and America.
Fabian’s wealth—it came at the
death of an aunt in'New York—prom
ised endless opportunities for gratifying
his philanthropic impulses. He had ac
quired at Chiltonhurst, near London, an
estate once owned by Lord St. Den-
yers. Fabian had purchased it for
60,000 pounds. Portions of the house
were thirteenth century, its last archi
tectural reunion was Tudor. Southward
one looked down upon elms and
vpruces that shut in 5,000 acres of the
finest land in England. Westward a
^steep incline of beech forest through
which the Thames ran.
English to her finger tips, Bernice
was not inclined to regard her Ameri-
9an husband as a new kind of dollar-
machine and signer of checks. She had
married in haste, but so far the leisured
repentance had concealed itself behind
.a smiling contentment. In London so
ciety the pair were labelled insepara
ble and distressingly happy.
Before her marriage Bernice had
spent eight years in the cast with her
father, Gerard Tolliver, a distinguished
army surgeon. No one had ever ex
plained to her friends the reason of
her return to civilization. It was hint
ed that her father’s temper had been
spoiled by an Asian sun and diet, and
that his growing eccentricities made
Bernice's homecoming imperative.
Her financial position after her re
turn was made manifest by the fact of
her entry as a nurse into the Roch-
warne Private sanatorium at Inter
laken. Here, at the end of her vigils,
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sho found repose for the tired brain
which had known th efeverish strain
that was beyond her years. In the
sixth month of her new vocation Fabian
came to the institute. He was in his
twenty-seventh year, a delicate, high-
strung American, suffering from that
modern anaemia which afflicts number
less business men and the idle rich.
And Rochwarne’s sanatorium was the
last haven of the inoperable million
aire.
' Fabian’s recovery was slow and
tedious. And during the long days of
his convalescence he had ample leisure
to study the white-capped daughter of
Gerard Tolliver.
In the chill Alpine dawn, when his
pulse almost ceased and his soul cried
for recease, he was often conscious of
the soft, familiar movement beside his
couch. Always before the dawn she
stole in, because at that hour, in the
east, she had seen soldiers and chil
dren die. Voiceless, soundless, she had
stood sentry beside the white death
angel of his dreams. Nothing in after
life had ever qliite removed that im
pression of her—the warm, beautiful
figure whose contact had held him to
earth, quickening the weary flame of
life when it threatened to - fade and
die.
It was complained afterward that
there had been no engagement, no ex
penditure of sentiment on Fabian’s
part. The world only heard of the
amazing marriage. And the society
ladies who had known him in New
York and London found solace in the
cry that Bernice was yoked to an in
valid.
At Holmwood she began to Interest
herself in his work, work so real and
startling that it often caused her brain
and heart to leap.
Fabian had set out to finance an al
most unknown professor of chemistry
in his experiments. At first Bernice
evinced .only a 'passing interest In her
husband’s conversation when it turned
on the day to day results of Jean
Caleret's progress. Highly technical
discourses conducted in the jargon of
the laboratory were apt to leave her
cold and skeptical of the astounding
results to come. It was not fame or
the thought of personal gain which in
clined Fabian to assist Jean Caleret
in his work. Bernice divined this only
after months of endless watching.
One day, while on a round of visits
to certain city infirmaries, they had
come upon numbers of cots contain
ing scores of wan, pain-weary children.
The sight of their emaciated faces and
limbs had stayed with her. It was
Fabian who suffered most after these
visits. Possessed of a highly emotional
temperament, he was seized by the ir
revocable tragedy of human suffering.
The science of medicine had done little
toward the obliteration of physical
anguish inherited and acquired by un
numbered millions. The discovery of
radium had promised much, but after
years of experiment and slow promise
nothing definite had been accomplished.
King Pain still -ruled in mansions of
the rich and in the dwellings of the
poor.
In Caderet, Fabian had found the
man whose work promised to revolu
tionize modern surgery. But the
French chemist’s impecunious circum
stances threatened to delay his burning
labors. Money was needed to continue
experiments. The new-found oxilion
nitrates, so essential in the treatment
of thorium and super-radium deposits,
were obtainable only at fabulous prices.
Only governments or multi-millionaires
could conduct with success a modern
laboratory. Fabian came to Caleret’s
aid, for he saw in the * man’s shining
eyes the power % and the genius he had
long sought.
And so Bernice began slowly to real
ize something -of her American hus
band’s desires. She, too, had not looked
upon the little prisoners of pain in the
big city hospitals for jiaught. More
over, it was the age of splendid effort,
wherein a brilliant band of scientists
were seeking, at the crucible’s mouth,
the new Christ of radium, the great
healer of human pain and suffering,
tivated soil from the ditches and rail
way bank.
A low-hooded auto slid from a near
side lane and trundled conscious of a
dust mask and a pair of eyes scrutiniz
ing her from the car. It stopped with
Bernice found herself eye to eye with
a grinding “gurr” beside her own ma
chine. The dust mask was removed and
an elderly Japanese.
A cold, sick feeling oppressed her
limbs. The blinding red of an old pagoda
floated before her swimming eyes. She
was back again In the bungalow at
CHAPTER II.
A wonderful little man, this Jean
Caleret, a modern goblin of the labora
tory with his chemical-stained blouse
and illumined eyes. Jean was ugly
and middle-aged, married only to his
craft and without child or wife. He
came often to Holmwood, bringing with
him at times strange, flourescent bulbs
of fire no larger than a pencil top.
It was one of these wonderful prisms
of violet rays which had withered and
healed an incurable flame spot of tor
ture on the head of a‘child. The op
eration, no painless and swift, became
vividly suggestive of the potentialities
of the little professor’s new discovery.
Bernice had seen the child, had gazed
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with hypnotized eyes at the flames
ejected in the mill wheels of fire from
the almost microscopic bulb in the pro
fessor’s hand.
“It is my half-god!” he told her
with a sidelong look. “If I treated all
the helium and radium in the world it
would not produce a grain of the half
god. It is fire with a soul, Mrs. Kro
mer; it is a soul with fingers and
brains and eyes! It is, ‘zip’ intensified
a millionfold!”
She never afterward forgot the little
hissing sound that accompanied the zip,
or the way his clever fingers manipu
lated the bulb of flaming zeu. She
was aware that the half-god was then
in its crudescent state, but that- the
day was near when the half born god
of the crucible would transcend in
brilliance and curative energy the wild
est speculations of modern scientists.
In the mean time the aim of her life
was to keep people talking. Inanition
meant the old mill wheels of thought
which centred Inevitably around a
Japanese bungalow and garden, with a
brown-eaved temple somewhere in the
shadows. Talk kept back the vision of
a round-eyed, olive-skinned baby that
slept in a wicker cot at the garden end
under the mimosa.
And just when things threatened to
grow dull at Holmwood Caleret’s mir
acle came like a flash and furnished
abundant opportunities for talk, joy
ous, incessant talk.
Would the professor’s discovery rid
humanity of its most dreaded scourge?
Fabian debated the point with her on
the lawn, walking slowly and thought
fully beside her, his eyes luminous
with new-found hope.
"I shall call on Caleret today, Bernv.
I must see him.”
Bernice had grown accustomed fo
Fabian’s flying visit to Colwyn street.
She noted that after each visit he usual
ly returned to Holmwood in a flushed
and excited condition. Very frequently
he was accompanied by Dr. Rochwarne,
who, since their marriage, paid many
flying calls to the house. There were
times when BerhiCe found her husband
conversing in almost dejected tones with
the famous surgeon. At her entry the
talk usually ceased. She was rarely de
ceived by the sudden change of topic or
the attempts on Fabian’s part to win
a little laughter from the pensive
browed Rochwarne.
Within easy walking distance of Chil
tonhurst was the town of Twyford, with
its mile-long vista of slums and cheap
“residential” allotments. The children
of Twyford knew Bernice; thp schools
and various charitable organizations
kept her busy during the bitter winter
months, while Fabian’s check book did
much to alleviate sickness and suffering
among the chronically unemployed and
destitute.
It was almost dusk when she com
pleted h,er usual rounds. Her car, which
generally followed whenever she chose
to walk, swept slowly round a street
corner and waited her approach. Ber
nice hesitated to enter. Far down the
road she heard the rooks cawing in the
high elms; a scent of new-mown hay-
lingered over the fields where the hedge
rows shut off the narrow strips of cul-
Nagasaki among, the heavy odors of
white blossoms and mimosa.
“They know yqu at Chiltonhurst,” he
said with a smileiess nod of recognition.
"They said you gave away money to
the very poor.”
His voice was devoid of heat or
passion, yet it held the subtle sneer
of pronounced enmity. In stature he
was boyish and slender; his face, which
showed signs of hard living and de
bauchery, had changed almost beyond
recollection. A touch of yellow in his
eyes made real his feline pose in the
car. He did not alight.
”1 thought we had seen the last of
each other. Dr. Hammersho.” She spoke
with face averted, her glance fixed on
her chauffeur sitting at ease in the
tonneau of the car.
Dr. Hammersho’s lips expanded. “I
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Kromer—news of Maurice Engleheart,,
the good sailor husband you married
six years ago in Nagasaki!”
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