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THE LOST WORLD By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE L__j (Continued from Ifitrrd»j.) "He Is not a popular person, the genial Challenger,” said he. “A lot of people have accounts to settle with him. I should say he Is the best hat ed man In London.f If the medical students turn out there will be no end of a rag. I don't want to get Into a bear garden.” "You might at least do him the justice to hear him state his own case.” “Well, perhaps It’s only fair. All right. I'm your man for the eve ning.” When we arrived at the hall we found a much greater concourse than 1 had expected. A line of electric broughams discharged their little car goes of w-htte-beared professors, while the dark stream of humbler pedes trians, who crowded through the arched doorway, showed that the audience would be popular as well as scientific. Indeed, it became evident to us as soon as we had taken our seats that a youthful and even boyish spirit was abroad in the gallery and the back portions of the hall. Look ing behind me, I could see rows of laces of the familiar medical student type. Apparently the great hospitals had each sent down their contingent. The behavior of the audience at pres ent was good-humored, but mlschiev tous. Scraps of popular songs were chorused with an enthusiasm which was a strange prelude to a scientific lecture, and there was already a ten dency to personal chaff which prom ised a jovial evening to others, how ever embarrassing it might be to the recipients of these dubious honors. Thus, when old Doctor Meldrum. with his well-known curly-brlmmed opera hat, appeared upon the plat> form, there was such a universal query of "Where did you get that tile?" that lie hurriedly removed it and concealed it furtively under his chair. When gouty Professor Wad lev limped down to hts seat there was general affectionate inquiries from all parts of the hall as to the exact state of his poor toe, which caused him obvious embarrassment. The greatest demonstration of all. however, was the entrance of my new acquaintance. Professor Challenger, when he passed down to take his place at the extreme end o ftlie front row of the platform. Such a veil of welcome broke forth when his black beard first protruded round the cor ner that I began to suspect Tary Henry was right In his surmise, and that this assemblage was there not merely for the sake of the lecture hut because 11 had got rumored abroad that the famour Professor would take part in the proceedings. The uproar of his advent had n-d yet died away when Professor Ronald ITurrav. the chairman, and Mr. Wal dron. the lecturer, threaded their way In the front, and the proceedings be gp n. .professor Murray marie .several pro New York --Day by Day B.v O. O. M'IXTYRE. New York, Feb. 16.—Motoring in New York is like a football game. You make a few yards and come to a full atop. Then you wait again for the signals and buck the line again Traffic^ increases at the rate of 20 per cent a year. During the rush hours it requires five minutes to travel a short block. K'ther New York must return to the old fashioned habit of walking or the main streets will become clogged and inert. Solving the traffic problem is one of the most*serious problems the metropolis faces. The idea of going out for a spin in a p’ensure car is what the chorus girls call ' ridlc.” It cannot he done. The skip stop and one way street p'ans have done very little to help. The city 1 ses $1.2.1(1,000 daily by traffic congestion in shipping delay 3 and the N -It of ensoline. Just r- to he onlv on» worthwhile i i n. '1 i-'f deck the streets—a lower and h.r ,• r level from the surface. This will cost millions hut not a million a day, as it does now. All hotels display warn ings for patrons to walk to the sta tions. Otherwise, they warn, one Is more than likely to miss the train. Kmpty taxicabs are Immediately ordered from Fifth Avenue. Only three bus ses are permitted nt the same time in a block and the street has the most highly perfected traffic system In the world. Yet it Is always clogged. Columbus Circle, the biggest local point of traffic, cannot stop conges tion yvlth 20 policemen on duty from R in the morning until midnight. The entire situation results in New York being unfit for either pedestrians or motorists. (Voice: "Why don't you get out of It?") Fire wagons have to go at a snail like pace through midtown despite their bell clanging snd slrenlng PnPce are unable to get the traffic out of the way for them and this en tails the danger of a heavy loss of life and property. Patterson McNutt Is William M<-Sla ven McNutt's “kid" brother. McNutt has won great prominence as a writ er. Now his "kid” brother comes along and writes a Broadway play that Is a wow and Is also a frequent contributor to the magazines. Thf crowning Insult happened one dny last week when a lady was Intro 4uced to the elder McNutt. "O!” she said, "I wonder If you ■ re a relative of Patterson McNutt?' "Just hia sappy brother,” replied Bill. The sunburn parlor on West Forty third street, which was opened tc rive cliff dwellers a gentls tannins In fifteen minutes, has closed. Nc explanation was offered. The big Idea was to give people a chance to h« sunburned snd to appenr as thougt they had Just returned from Mlam or Palm Beach. There is a pleasant spot ehov< Riverside Drive called Insplratior Point. At the peak there is a beautl fu! view of the Hudson and purpllnf Palisades. It Is an Inspirational polnl for lovers and many young men In spired bv the breath taking beauty oi It all pop the question. Tills happen' eo often that there Is a group ol •'marriage runners” who hang ahonl the point and pass out cards ahowina where young couples may go to b» ■peedlly wed. A New Yorker sailed fer Italy re eently to see a sister aged 20 snd n brother aged II Whom h-s had nevei •eenahefors. They were born aftei be (sti.e to America. (Copyright. Hll.I found remark* to hig white tie and to the water-carafe upon the table, with a humorous twinkling aside to the sliver candlestick upon his right. Then he sat down, and Mr Wal dron, the famous popular lecturer, rose amid a general murmur of ap plause. At last the lecture came to an end —I am inclined to think that it was a premature one, as the peroration was hurried and disconnected. Wal dron sat down, and after a chirrup from the chairman. Professor Chal lenger rose and advanced to the edge of the platform. In the Interest of my paper I took down his speech In verbatim. “Ladles and Gentlemen," he began, amid a sustained Interruption from the back. "I beg pardon—Ladies, Gentlemen and Children—I must apologize, I had inadvertently omit ted a considerable section of this audience” (tumult, during which the professor stood with one hand raised and his enormous head nodding sym pathetically, as If he were bestowing a pontifical blessing upon the crowd), “I have been selected to move a rote of thanks to Mr. Waldron for the very picturesque and Imaginative ad dress to which we have Just listened. There are points in it with which I disagree, and it has been my duty to indicate them as they arose, hut, nonetheless, Mr. Waldron has accom plished his object well, that object being to give a simple and interesting account of what he conceives to have been the history of our planet. Popu lar lectures are the easiest to listen to, but Mr. Waldron.” (here he beamed and blinked at the lecturer) “will ex cuse me when I say that they are necessarily both superficial and mis leading, since they have to he graded to the comprehension of an ignorant audience." (Ironical cheering.) "Popu lar lecturers are In their nature para rltic." (Angry gesture of protest from Mr. Waldron.) “They exploit for fame or cash the work which has been done by their indigent and un known brethren. One smallest new fact obtained In the laboratory, one brick built into the temple of sci ence. far outweighs any second hand exposition which passes an idle hour, but can leave no useful result behind t. I put forward this obvious re flection. not out of any desire to dis parage Mr. Waldron in particular, but that you may not lose your sense of proportion and mistake the acolyte for the high priest." (At this point Mr. Waldron whispered to the chair man. who half rose and said some thing severely to his water-carafe.) “But enough of this!" (Loud and pro longed cheers.) "Let me pass to some subject of wider interest. What is the particular point upon which I. a* an original investigator, have challenged our lecturer’s accuracy? It is upon the permanence of certain types of animal life upon the earth. I do not speak upon this subject as an ama teur. nor. I may add, as a popular lecturer, but I speak as one whose scientific conscience compels him to pdhere closely to facts, when I say that Mr. Waldron is very wrong in supposing because he has never him self seen a so-called prehistoric ani mal, therefore these creatures no longer exist. They are indeed, as he has said, our ancestors, but they are. if I may use the expression, our con temporary ancestors, who can still be found with all their hideous and for midable characteristics if one has but the energy and hardihood to seek their haunts. Creatures which were supposed to he Jurassic, monsters who would hunt down and devour our largest and fiercest mammals, still exist." (Cries of "Bosh!'’ “Prove It!" “How do you know?" "Question!") “How do I know, you ask me? I now because I have visited their sof-ret naunts. I know because I have seen some of them." (Applause, uproar and a voice. "Liar!") “Am I a liar?” (General hearty and noisy acspnt.) “Did I hear some one say that I was a liar? Will the person who called me a liar kindly stand up that I may know him?" (A voice. H»re he is, sir!" and an inoffensive little person In spectacles, struggling violently, was held up among a group nf students.) “Did you venture to rail rr>“ a liar?" (“No, sir, no!” shouted accused, and disappeared like a . tl box.) “If any person in this hall i.,*res to doubt my veracity, I shall be glad to have a few words with him after the lecture." ("Liar!") "Who said that?" (Again the Inoffen slve one plunging desperately, was elevated high into the air.) “If I come down among you—’’ (General chorus of "Come, love, rnme!" whieh lnter rupted the proceedings for some mo ments. while the chairman, standing up ami waving both his arms, seemed to be conducting the music. The pro f> - sor. with his face fleshed, his mm | M-ils dilated, and his beard bristling | was now in a proper Berserk mood.I I “Kvo-v great discoverer has been [ met with the same incredulity—the sure brand of a generation of fools. ! When great facts are laid before you, ! - on h ive not the intuition, the Imagt ! v under What Paavo Nurm Think# About. By BRIGGS - --- — . 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Galileo, Parwin, and I—" (Profonged cheer ing and complete interruption.! All this is from mv hurried notes taken at the time, which give little notion of the absolute chaos to which the assembly had by this time been reduced. So terrific was the uproar that several ladies had already beaten a hurried retreat. Grave and rever end seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as hadly as the students, and 1 saw white bearded men rising and shaking thir fists at the obdurate professor. The whole great audience seethed and simmered like a boiling pot. The Professor took a step forward and raised both his hands. There was something so big and arresting and virile In the man that the clatter ami shouting died gradually away hpfnre his command ing gesture and his masterful eyes. He seemed to have a definite message. They hushed to hear It. "I will not detain you." he said. "It is not worth It. Truth is truth, and the noise of a number of foolish young men—and. T fear I must add, of their equally foolish seniors—can not affect the matter. T claim that I have opened a new field of science. You dispute it.” (Cheers.) "Then 1 put you to the test. Will you accred it one or more of your own number* to go out as your representatives and test my statement in your name?" Mr. Summerlee, the veteran prnfes sor of comparative anatomy, rose among the audience, a tall, thin, bit ter man, with the withered aspect of a theologian. He wished, he said, to ask Professor Challenger whether the results to which he had alluded in his remarks had been obtained lim ing a Journey to the headwaters of the Amazon made by him two years be fore. Professor Challenger answered that they had. Mr. Summerlee desire to know how It was that Professor Challenger claimed to have made discoveries in those regions which had been over looked by Wallace, Bates and other previous explorers of established sci entific repute. Professor Challenger answered that Mr. Summerlee appeared to he con fusing the Amazon with the Thames; that tt was in reality a somewhat 'nrger river; that Mr. Summerlee might he interested to know that with the Orinoco, which communi cated with it, some fifty thousand miles of country were opened up. anil that in so vast a space It was not impossible for one person to find what another had missed. Mr. Summerlee declared, with an acid smile, that he fully appreciated the difference between the Thames and the Amazon, which lay In the fart I hat anv assertion about t+re former could be tested, while about the lat ter it could not. He would he obliged if Professor Challenger would give the latitude and the longlitude of the country in which prehistoric animals were to lie found. Professor Challenger replied that he reserved such information for good reasons of hLs own, hut would he pre pared to give it with proper precau tions to a committee chosen from the audience. Would Mr. Summerlee serve on «uch a committee and test his story in person? Mr. Summerlee; “Yes, I will." (Great cheering.) Professor Challenger: “Then I (guarantee that I will place in youi i hands euch material as will enable you to find your way. It is only right, however, since Mr. Summer lee goes to check my statement that 1 should have one nr more with him who may check his. I will not din guise from you that there are difficul ties and dangers. Mr. Summerlee will need a younger colleague. May I ask for volunteer*?” It is thus that the great crisis of a man's life springs out at him. Could T have imagined when I entered that hall that I was about to pledge myself to a wilder adventure than had ever come to me in my dreams? But Gladys—was it not the very opportu nity of which she spoke? Gladys would have told me to go. T had sprung to mv feet. T was speaking, and vet 1 had prepared no words. Tarp Henry, my companion, xvas plpcking at my skirts and 1 heard him whispering, “Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself.” At the same time I was aware that a tall, thin man. with dark gingery hair, a few seats to front of m\ wsu* also upon his feet. He glared ♦nek at me w’lth hard angry eyes, hut 1 re fused to give way. "I will g«*. Mr, Chairman.” I kept repeating over and over again. ‘‘Name! Name!'* cried the audienc*. "My name is Edward Dunn Ma lone i am the reporter of the Daily CJazette. I claim to be an absolutely unprejudiced witness.” "What is your name, sir?” the chairman asked of my tall rival. "I am Lord John Roxton. I have already been up the Amazon. 1 know !all the ground, and have special cjuali Ifications for this investigation.” “Lord John Roxton’* reputation as a sportsman and a traveler is. of ! course, world famous.” said the chair man; at the same time it would cer tainly be as well to have a member! of the press upon such an expedi tion.” “Then T move.” said Professor Clia! longer, "that both these gentlemen bo elected, as representatives of this meeting, to accompany Professor Summerlee upon his journey to teres ligate and t-e report upon the truth of mv statements.” And «o. amid shouting and chert ing. our fate was decided, and T found myself borne away In the human current which swirled toward the door with my mind half stunped by the vast new project which had risen so suddenly before it. As I emerged from the hall 1 was conscious for n moment of a rush of laughing stu dents down th» pavement, and of an arm wielding a heavy umbrella, which rose and fell in the midst of them. Then, amid a mixture of groan*! and cheers Professor Challenger's electric brougham slid from the curb and T found myself walking tinder the s'.’ very lights of Regent Street, fuli of thoughts of Gladys and of wonder nc to mv future. Suddenly there was a touch at my elbow. T turned, and found n.vsrlf looking into the humorous, masterful eyes of the tall, thin man who had volunteered to he my companion on this strange quest. “Mr. Malone, l understand." said he. “We are to be companions — what,? My rooms are just over the road, in th® Albany. perhaps you would have the kindness to spate me half an hour, for there are one or two things that I badly want to sa\ to you." T,ord John Ruxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingv portals of the fa nious aristocratic rookery. At the end of a long drab passage m.v new a« • t aintance pushed open m d* or and turned on an electric switch. Th’-ough the thin haze «*f my cigar smoke I noted the details of a face which was already familiar to me from many photographs the strong* lv* curved nose, the hollow, worn cheeks, the dark, ruddy hair, thin nt the top, the crisp, virile moustaches, the small, aggressive tuft upon h t ^ projecting chin. His skin was • f a rich flower pot red from sun and wind. His eyebrows were tufted and over hanging. which gave those naturally cold eyes an almost ferocious aspe“t, an impiession which wns Increased by his strong and furrowed brow. In figure he was spare, but very strongly built—indeed, he had often proved that there were few men in England capable of such sustained exertions. His height was a little over six feet, hut he seemed shorter on account of a. peculiar rounding of the shoulders. Such was the famous Lord John Rux* ton as he jsat opposite to me, bitinjf hard upon his cigar and watching m# steadily in a long and embarrassing silc nco. (To Re Continued Tomorrow.) I . 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