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Where are we going to-day?" She turned to Lanfear while her father answered: "I guess the doctor won't want to go very far, to-day, after his expedition yesterday afternoon." "Ah," she said, "I knew you had been somewhere! Was it very far? Are you too tired?" "It was rather far, but I'm not tired. I shouldn't advise Possana, though." "Possana?" she repeated. "What is Possana?"
"Certainly I will come," Lanfear said, and he passed to the girl's right; she had taken her father's arm; but he wished to offer more support if it were needed. When they had climbed to the open flowery space before the hotel, she seemed aware of the groups of people about.
Of course when Lanfear talked like that of a young biologist his fate was sealed. There could be no question of Dredge's going back to "teach school" at East Lethe. He must take a course in biology at Columbia, spend his vacations at the Wood's Holl laboratory, and then, if possible, go to Germany for a year or two. All this meant his virtual adoption by the Lanfears.
Lanfear, of course, had been struck from the first by his gift of accurate observation, and by the fact that his eagerness to learn was offset by his reluctance to conclude. I remember Lanfear's telling me that he had never known a lad of Dredge's age who gave such promise of uniting an aptitude for general ideas with the plodding patience of the accumulator of facts.
He got it all out, not so clearly as those women had got everything in, Lanfear reflected, but unmistakably enough as to the fact, and he looked at his daughter as he repeated: "Haven't the Bells been here?" She shook her head, and said, with her delicate quiet: "Nobody has been here, except " She glanced at Lanfear, who smiled, but saw no opening for himself in the strange situation.
There was something so convincingly normal in her expression that Lanfear dismissed a painful conjecture. "I beg your pardon," he said. "I am afraid there's some mistake. I haven't the pleasure You must excuse me, but your father wished me to ask you to wait here for him till he had got his baggage " "My father?" the girl stopped him with a sort of a frowning perplexity in the stare she gave him.
The queer part of it was that when Dredge emerged from these eclipses he seemed keener and more active than ever. His slowly growing intelligence probably needed its periodical pauses of assimilation; and Lanfear was marvellously patient. At last Dredge finished his course and went to Germany; and when he came back he was a new man was, in fact, the Dredge we all know.
Her sleeping so much is a good symptom, isn't it?" Lanfear smiled forlornly; neither of them, in view of the possible eventualities, could have said what result they wished the symptoms to favor. But he said: "Decidedly I wouldn't wake her"; and he spent a night of restless sleep penetrated by a nervous expectation which the morning, when it came, rather mockingly defeated.
"If he could choose Dredge he might as well have chosen his own son," I've heard it said; and the irony was that Archie will you believe it? actually thought so himself! But Lanfear had Weyman behind him, and when the end came the Faculty at once appointed Galen Dredge to the chair of Experimental Evolution. For the first two years things went quietly, along accustomed lines.
"A scientific hypothesis lasts till there's something else to put in its place. People who want to get across a river will use the old bridge till the new one's built. And I don't see any one who's particularly anxious, in this case, to take a contract for the new one," Lanfear ended; and I remember answering with a laugh: "Not while Horatius Dredge holds the other."
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