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“They would not be exact reproduc-

' tions. You missed the finest point of my beautiful ard exact theory. Mv

calculation includes cclour, -race, and

all previous corditions of servitude.

New, applying the truth I have dis-

covered, it follows that at all times

every man and woman in the world

has 10 or 11 perfect doubles some-

where else in the world. There are

fiat CHAPTER IL. 3 |? #e” MYSELF.

Professor Hafed Gorgensen, specta- cled und-shouldered, very bald, and pas threescore and ten, wheeled his | squea chair round so as to face my 1 her, who, in her timid way, be- lley in the startling theories of the dogmatic crank, and who, with a feel- ing akin to awe, had brought her lit- tle boy—myself—for him to pronounce upon.

‘Yes, madam,” he said, his thin lips moving with a peculiar energy, which showed the single snag in his upper jaw, “any man with common sense who will devote three minutes thought to the matter will not dare cispute it.”

“TI always believed what you said,

professor, but my husband "—

“Pat! Your husband is a fool, like all husbanrds.”’

I looked sideways at mother, won- Gering how she would take this refer- ence to my father. She said in the way of protest. Perhaps she did not catch the full meaning of the words. Possibly she caught and be- lieved them,

“It’s as simple as that two and two make four. In round numbers there are i,500,000,000 of pecple in the world. They have all been modeled after the same image. The average length of life is 33 years, so this 1,500,- 000,000 is renewed three times a cen- tury. Since the Creation, 6,000 years ago, it has been renewed 15,000 times ’’—

“But,” ventured my mother, in a quaking voice, “ there have not always been 1,500,000,000 of people on_ the earth. You know that at first there were only two—Adam and Eve—and a geod many years must have passed be- fore the number became as great as it is now.”

The professor’s jaw dropped, and his little gray eyes twinkled behind his spectacles. He was overcome, for the moment with admiration for this timid woman that had dared to throw an ob- stacle in front of his juggernaut of logic.

“Madam, you’re not a fool, which is more than I ever said of any other woman, but if you had held your tongue a minute longer you would have heard the qualification of my first statement. Of course many gen- erations came and went before the population of the earth reached 1,000,- 00,000. I’ve figured it all out. Mak- ing allowance for all this, the total population of the world since the Creatiori has been about 10,000,000,000, - v00. Do you realize it ?” he demand- ed, leaning forward, with his hands on his skinny knees through his spectacles.

“Oh, yes, of course.”

“Well, then, all I have to say, mad- am, is that you're ayn infernai sight emarter than every person ever born into this world. All the people that I have known find it rather hard work to grasp the full meaning of 100. When they strike 1,000, they begin to get hazy. Beyond that it is all a mass of terms, with nothing tangible in the way of understanding. Astronomers talk about the distance of heavenly bodies, the velocity of light, the speed of comets, and all that, without any more real comprehension of what it al! means than that little freckle-faced boy by your side knows about pons azinorum.”

“J didn’t mean—that is, I don’t understand—but ’’—

“ Never mind,’’ broke in the profes- sor, with an impatient wave of his 1

of course,

ttenuated fingers. ‘* The self-evident 4. wth is this: Every man and woman 10 into this world has, with few ex- ceptions, two eyes, a nose, mouth and features and form of the face modelled after one image Nvow, while we see @ marvelous variety among the which we meet on the street, neyer en- countering two that are exactly alike, it is still evident that there must be a limit to this variation. It is not infinite. Do you follow me ?” sudden- ly thundered Professor Gorgensen, in such excitement that my poor mother save a slight*start and exclamation, Wwhil@ i Jooked round for some way to escape. ~ an, Oh yes;

derstand you.

faces

oh, yes: certainly I un-

"Pai! | down i. Lut you know as much as any of your sex. I have figured the whole thing out. I have

made a mathematical demonstration of —

. The prefessor glared at my mother as if challenging her to dispute his assertion, but the frightened woman remained silent and expectant.

* Now and then,” he continued, “we meet two persons so alike in appear- ance that their most intimate friends cannot tell them apart. Nevertheless, there is a difference which manifests itsclf, after a time, if not in their looks, in their disposition, but what I ‘am striving to impress upon your under- standing is that this variation has its limit. When a certain number of hu- man beings are modelled after the one image, a point is finally reached when all possible variations are at end. The work must then g0 back to the ginning and r=peat ‘tself.’’

“My! And you have figured it all out, professor ?’”

be-

“I have,” was the impressive an- swer. “IT am the only person that has done so. The vanishing noint is at the number 128,645,326. In other words, that number of men and wo- men can be born and may grow up with enough variatien in their looks

and disposition to be dAistinguishable from each other, but when one more individual is added to the number he must be a reproductton of one of the multitude I My mother showed a surprising ant-

vest have named.

ness in following the amazing theory of F1 sscr Gorgensen. “Tren there are a good manv peo-

ple living to-day who are exactly the same in everv respect ?’’ * Precisely.”

_._But what about the different rac< 7

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‘ century in myself.

at this moment somewhere among the Caucasian race iully ten women exact- ly like vou in looks, age, and disposi-

tion. Your own husband or that stupid-looking urchin at your side could not distinguish them from one

€.nother.”’

**Oh, my !’"’ grasped my mother, look- ing apprehensively around. ‘““T hope none of them will move into my neigh- bourhcod.”

“It isn’t likely that you will ever meet in this world. Have no alarm. Following my reasoning. All these dou- bles are but repetitions of doubles that existed a generation ago, and so on through the past centuries.”

“Then thousands of years. since there were persons living who were exactly like me and some who were exactly like you ?”

The professcr nodded his bald hea‘. He was pleased that one woman could appreciate the wonderful symmetry of his logic.

“If we could only know about those persons,”’ she added, musingly.

“To some extent we can. of course the majority died and passed away without leaving any record be- hird them, but we have the history of some of them.”

A strange smile lit up the wan face of my mother.

“As for me”.

“There is no record. All such wo- men were too insignificant to sav or do anything that entitled them to re- membrance.”’

“And with you ?”

“It is different. It did not take me lorg to find out the historical persen- age who is reincarnated in me.”

“Dare I ask, professor ?”

“You read your Bible, I presume?”

* Dea.

“When you go home, turn to the twelfth chapter of IT. Samuel, and in the twenty-fourth verse you will find the account of the birth of the man who is reproduced in this nineteenth Of course our en- vironments are different, and our lives necessarily vary, but my features, my frame, my brain, my disposition—in- deed, everything in our nature and ot is the same to the shadow of a 1air.”’

“ Wonderful, wonderful !” exclaimed my awed parent. ““Y will be sure to lcok it up as soon as I reach home. But, professor, I brought my son with me.”’

*“* What for ?°°

“TI wish you to tell me what person of the past he resembles.”

Those snectacles, like twin locomo- tive headlights, were now focused upon me with a strange, hypnotic power. I could see the small gray eyes twinkling like points of fire, while he seemed to look me through.

“Come here, sir,” he growled, with- out stirring limb or feature.

T slid off the high chair, and, sum- moning my courage, sidled up to him.

“What's your name °*”’

“Harmon OQ. Westcott, sir.”

“How old are you ?”

I hesitated a moment, during which my mother announced that I was in my eleventh year.

“I want the exact cate of his birth.”

She gave it. He reached out his right hand, and the thin, cold, claw-

© What's your name?”

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like fingers rested on my crown. Star- ing straight into my eves, he turned my head back and forth, first to the right and then to the left, while my body remained motionless. Vhile do- ing so he muttered something which must have been in a foreign language, for I could not catch the meaning of a word. I was too young to suspect it at the time, but these tiny, penetrat- ing eyes noted everything. My soft, dark, curly hair, my stronz, regular teeth, my clear complexion, slightly freckled, the shape of my face, the features, all were cbserved with the keenest possible scrutiny.

Then he pinched my arms and legs, ng so with a persistency that caus- ed me more than one twinge of pain.

“Now you may take your seat.”

The big chair crexaked round on {its pivot, and the professor faced his vast desk, covered with huge volumes, whose backs were worm-eaten and whose pages were yellow with time He took down the middle volume, and opened and fumbled it for a few min- utes. I saw his gaunt forefinger run- ning along the lines and down the page, while the scrawny neck and bent shoulders stooped forward as he peer- ed at the written words before him.

Suddenly the claw sfonped. | He had

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Pound whe Ment PFaCo. 4 coum lips moving, as some persons’ reading to themselves, I silently watched

se mis do when

My mother and him, afraid to

speak. I stealthily sought her hand and slipped mine within jt. The warm, hard fingers closed affection- ately over the chubby ones of her only son, as if she would shield him

from some vague, shadowy peril.

Winally the professor slid each hand, palm upward, underneath the covers of the open volume, and, with a quick flirt, closed it, wheeling on the in- siant so as to face us.

“T found it,” he said, shutting those thin lips together as if to imprison the all-important knowledge.

“And who _"

“Before answering your question,” he said, impressively, punctuating each

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sentence with a dip of his forefinger, ‘let me warn you, young man, to keep this knowledge a secret so far as you possibly can. You are going to have, if vou have it not already, a most remarkable gift, but you must not exercise it except in case of neces- sity. If you do, it will probably pass irom you. Mrs. Westcott, when you io home, you will read the thirteenth

chapter of Judges, and in the twenty-

lOurth verse you Will find a statement of the birth of the man of whom your S0n is to be the exact reproduction. All that is known of that famous

; Character is told in the following three

chapters. That’s all. Good-day.”

Notwithstanding my mother’s anxi- eiy to learn my horoscope, as it may lee considered, she first sought out the reference which bore uvon Professor Gorgensen himself. I think she sus- for she was smiling when she glanced down the page of the well- thumbed Bible to the verse the pro- had named and which told of the birth of Solomon, the son of David.

The she hunted out my own in the second book of Samuel.

In me was born once more Samson, the strongest man that ever live.

fessor

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(To be Continued.)

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