As it is, you've nobly demonstrated an unalterable scientific fact.

The collision of marble and glass is unvaryingly eventful." Bellowing indignantly, Starrett charged into the hallway, followed by Payson.

Presently the outer door slammed violently behind them.
Wherry lingered.
Carl glanced curiously at his flushed and boyish face.
"Well ?" he queried lightly.
Wherry colored.
"Carl," he stammered, "you've been talking a lot about parasites to-night and I'd like you to know that--money hasn't made a jot of difference to me." He met Carl's laughing glance with dogged directness and for a second something flamed boyishly in his face from which Carl, frowning, turned away.
"Why don't you break away from this sort of thing, Dick ?" he demanded irritably.

"Starrett and myself and all the rest of it.

You're sapping the splendid fires of your youth and inherent decency in unholy furnaces.