perish?"

"I am surely blind to that and always have been," she readily admitted
with a little more boldness.

"Perhaps you can see the justice of God in punishing the sinner?" he
continued with a touch of sarcasm in his voice.

"Plainly visible."

"So I expected."

He then proceeded to a more minute examination, after which he wrote
a brief diagnosis and commended her to a specialist in the next
building.

She hesitated somewhat, but Mr. World, handing her, confidentially,
a handsome sum of yellow coin from his bag of gold, brought words of
deep thankfulness from her lips, and gave decision to her steps in the
direction he desired.

From the great dome they were taken in a closed car over the high
suspension bridge to the adjoining building which was of still greater
magnitude.

The room into which they entered, at such a dizzy height, surpassed,
in its unique arrangement, anything of the kind that they had thus far
seen. In long and high glass cases lay all the modern appliances used
by the most skillful hands. The furnishings blended harmoniously with
the general environments. All this won the utter confidence of the new