When he had
recovered, the discovery had been completed and given to the
scientific world."
"Oh!" cried Helen. "What a trick!"
"So I think. The discovery was purely theoretic and brought no particular
fame or money to Eldridge. It was, as he looked at it, and as the doctor
himself looked at it, merely carrying common knowledge to a conclusion.
Perhaps it was; but I never forgave Eldridge for depriving the old man of
the little satisfaction of the final proof. It is indicative of the whole
man. He lacks humanity, and therefore imagination."
"Still, I wish you wouldn't be quite so bitter when I'm around," pleaded
Helen, "though I love your feeling for dear old Doctor Schermerhorn."
"I wish you could arrange to get out of town for a little while," urged
Darrow. "Isn't there some one you can visit?"
"Do you mean there is danger?"
"There is the potentiality of danger," Darrow amended. "I am almost
confident, if pure reason can be relied on, that when the time comes I can
avert the danger."
"Almost--" said Helen.
"I may have missed one of the elements of the case--though I do not think
so. I can be practically certain when I telephone a man I know--or see the
morning papers."
"Telephone now, then. But why 'when the time comes'? Why not now?"
Darrow arose to go to the telephone. He shook his head.
"Let Eldridge do his best. He has always succeeded--triumphantly.
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