for dear life, but every quiver of her back told that she was listening.

"You agree vit' me?"

"It seems reasonable; the subject is one that you have deeply studied."

"Ach so! T'e perfect organism must haf t'e perfect beauty. T'e vorld has
nefer seen a perfectly beautiful man or voman. Vat vould it say to von,
t'ink you? But perfection, you vill tell me, is far to seek," he went on,
without waiting for a reply. "Yet people haf learned t'at many diseases
are crimes. By-and-by, we may teach t'em t'at bat organism is t'e vorst of
crimes; beautiful organism t'e first duty. V'at do you say?"

The fur-capped girl pushed back her chair.

"Prof. Darmstetter," she said, "will you be good enough to look at my
sections?"

"He's stirred up the hornets' nest," whispered Helen. "But come; perhaps
they will show us. Those girls are so clever; they're sure to have
something interesting."



CHAPTER IV.


THE GODDESS AND THE MOB.

As we descended the stairway and passed groups of students in front of the