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8 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. 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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 WHEN Jl LAXATIVE IS NEEDEO-“CflSCARETS” CIVIL SERVICE BARS TO REMAIN UP FOR AWRILE Salts, Calomel and Cathartic Pills Act on Bowels as Pep per Acts in Nostrils Take a Cascaret tonlghjt and thor oughly cleanse your Liver, Stomach and Bowels, and you will surely feel great by morning. You men and women who have headache, coated tongue, can’t sleep, are bilious, nervous and upset, bothered with a sick, gassy, disordered stomach, or have backache and feel all worn out. Are you keeping your bowels clean with Cascarets—or merely forcing a pass ageway every few days with salts, ca thartic pills or castor oil? Thi3 is im portant. '-Cascarets immediately cleanse and reg ulate the stomach, remove the sour, un digested and fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry off «• the constipated waste matter and poison from tho in testines and bowels. Remember, a Cascaret tonight will straighten you out by morning. A 10- cent box from your druggist means healthy bowel action; a clear head and cheerfulness for months.- Don’t forget the children.— (Advt.) Wilson Says There’s No Im mediate Prospect of Re voking Taft's Order 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 (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 8.—President Wilson let it be known today that there was no immediate prospect of let ting down the civil service bars to thousands of Democratic offleeseekers. The president told Senator Pomerene that so far, he and the cabinet had formulated no policy as to appoint ments for minor positions in the gov ernment service. There had been a report that Presi dent Wilson might revoke the recent or der of Mr. Taft which put 36,000 fourth- class postmasters under civil service. Postmaster General Burleson said to day that no appointments of postmas ters probably would be made before April 1, except possibly in cases of emergency. Approximately 1,500 such appointments by Mr. Taft were not acted upon by the last senate, and it will be necessary for President Wilson to make appointments to all these of fices. v Mr. Burleson Indicated that it would be his policy, too, not to disturb capable and efficient postal employes protected by the civil service. 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So far as is known here there was no loss of life. have come to break the news. Mine, Kromer—news of Maurice Engleheart,, the good sailor husband you married six years ago in Nagasaki!” All the life vanished from her face. She remained cold and still beside the car until his loud breathing awoke her from the death spell of his words. “You were once honored in your own country, as a speaker of the truth, Hlogi Hammersho. How,” her voice seemed to break with the pain of her question. “How did this lie originate?” I-Ie bent toward her and between his hoarse breathing she heard the quick flow of words that ran like molten fire into her brain. "All that talk of Captain Engleheart’s drowning and silly and wrong, Mme. Kromer. Two days after the sinking of his ship he was picked up by some fishermen in the Formosa sea. Such things have happened before, madame. The wives of sailors should never be too sure, never too sure!” The flat toneless voice devoid of emo tion or anger struck her as uncanny. She wanted to run away now, only . . . She looked bleakly at her own swift car and again at his small gloved hand on the steering wheel. “You were not hard to find in^this neighborhood,” he went on as though divining her thoughts. “You will not be hard to follow again.” She was not listening now. The ocean had flung back upon her the man whose life no one had thought worthy of remembering. But why . . . had Engleheart kept silent for five years? Doctor Hammersho seemed to fasten upon her bitter meditations with the craft of a seer. “I was not aware the sea had spared him until a year ago, Mme. Kromer. The insurance business w-as a scandal! You know the lawyers in Calcutta made a great noise about the sinking of the Manhattan. 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