Long sinuous flashes of lightning flitted through the sky. Aurora struggled to obliterate the darkness which had found a region conducive to its moodiness. Sparks and ashes emerged from a small crater while the inhabitants of Ponguelano scurried from alleys going toward the large cellar which Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident he had prognosticated to a skeptical people that the day would arrive when they would no longer laugh at his whimsicalities but praise his foresight; and the day had come. Armakeli's compatriots sang ubilantly.

At the Vumeri Hospital the cockroaches chirped, the patients rang bells, and the staff patiently waited in the sumptuous laboratory. Why the nurses and docses and doctors were peering through glass covered interstices into an immense box in the middle of the room the Vagabond furtively inquired. A mass of almond hair whispered that they were waiting for the reaction. Within the cubic cell were two poles placed upright and a sobbing boy sitting on the floor. The muscles of his cheeks contracted and relaxed spasmodically; his legs twitched. Dequuro, the god who warned the people of Ponguelano, on more serious occasions, had purposely neglected the sick and the healers until the last moment, knowing that neither group had any confidence in him; yet his sense of duty precipitated him into the room... As the doctors and nurses were leaving the laboratory, Professor Liovarn turned to an ebon wall. "Dequuro," he cried, "you have ruined by experiment. I would have continued until the brat did a figure eight around the poles; but my assistants sacrifice an experiment in the normal when they hear there is an eruption. You, you don't belong." Fascinated, the Vagabond returned, prepared to hear Professor Pratt lecture on "Abnormal Psychology" at nine o'clock today.

TODAY

9 O'Clock

"Abnormal Psychology," Assistant Professor Pratt, Emerson D.

"Great Rhythms of Historical and Social Processes," Professor Sorokin, Emerson E.

"Primitive Language," Professor Tozzer. Semitic Museum 1.