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Finding himself alone with Weissmann during the afternoon, he said, carelessly: "If you were called upon to prove the falsity or demonstrate the truth of the spiritualistic faith how would you set to work?" Weissmann was a delicious picture as he stood facing his young colleague.
The two inquisitors then took seats Morton at the psychic's right, Weissmann at her left. When the positions were all decided upon, Viola, with a note of disappointment in her voice, asked, "Aren't you going to tie me?" "Oh no," replied Morton, "the conditions are yours to-night. You are our guest. Our tests will be made at some other time." "Please make them to-night," she pleaded.
"Weissmann practically advised me to go into a study of these morbid conditions." "He did? Well, that from Rudolph Weissmann, after what I've seen to-day, unsettles my reason. Maybe those people really have a message. But, Morton, you really must do something for that girl. Her condition is pitiful.
The young man, believing this to be only the mocking mood of one who knew the argument of the dualists better than they knew it themselves, remained silent, and Weissmann composedly resumed: "The dogmatism of Haeckel is as vain as the assumption of Metchnikoff. We shall forever discover and forever despair. Such is the life of man."
Morton went to his work next morning quite unfitted for an especially delicate piece of dissection which he had in hand. He bungled it, and Weissmann transfixed him with a glare of disapproval. "My boy, these social gayeties do not consort well with science." The young man smiled to think how wide of the mark his chief was. He held up both hands. "I swear, it shall not happen again."
"Lovely psychics like you would put the whole American Academy of Science in disorder." Clarke, raging with jealous fire, turned to Weissmann in truculent mood. "Well, Dr. Weissmann, how do you account for these phenomena? To whose agency do you ascribe these marvels?" "Spooks!" answered the old man, with cheerful promptness. Clarke reeled before this laconic admission. "What! You agree?
"If you need me on the case you mention, be sure to let me know. It sounds mighty interesting, and I'd like a hand in it." After Tolman left, Weissmann remarked: "There is a school of thinkers which believes that exceptional individuals may have the power to effect molecular changes in matter at a distance." "Yes, I know that.
I distrust Clarke utterly but the mother is apparently very gentle and candid, and yet Weissmann may be right. Maternal love is a very powerful emotion. That second voice was like hers. And yet, and yet, to suspect that gentle soul of deliberate deception is a terrible thing. What a world of vulgarity and disease and suspicion it all is!
"Proceed," replied the old man, who spoke with a little touch of the German now and then. "What do you think of the claims of spiritualism?" Weissmann did not smile as Serviss had expected. He became grave. "I am not qualified to judge. Speaking generally, I would say there are many phases to be considered.
Kate at once engaged him in conversation in order that he and Morton might not fall into argument, and with the further purpose of permitting her young people a little time for mutual explanation. She was glad when Weissmann came in, brisk as a boy, his keen eyes peering alertly through his horn-bowed glasses; he not merely proved a diversion, he completed her party.
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