Part 2 (1/2)
”Oh, it was rank nonsense about some queer animals he had discovered
I believe he has retracted since Anyhow, he has suppressed it all
He gave an interview to Reuter's, and there was such a howl that he saouldn't do It was a discreditable business There were one or two folk ere inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off”
”How?”
”Well, by his insufferable rudeness and iical Institute Wadley sent a ical Institute presents his coer, and would take it as a personal favor if he would do the' The ansas unprintable”
”You don't say?”
”Well, a bowdlerized version of it would run: 'Professor Challenger presents his coical Institute, and would take it as a personal favor if he would go to the devil'”
”Good Lord!”
”Yes, I expect that's what old Wadley said I rean: 'In fifty years experience of scientific intercourse----' It quite broke the old er?”
”Well, I'ist, you know I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope I can hardly clai that I can see with e of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave h, hulking creatures I'm too detached to talk scandal, and yet at scientific conversaziones I HAVE heard soer, for he is one of those nore He's as clever as they ed battery of force and vitality, but a quarrelsome, ill-conditioned faddist, and unscrupulous at that He had gone the length of faking soraphs over the South American business”
”You say he is a faddist What is his particular fad?”
”He has a thousand, but the latest is so about Weissmann and Evolution He had a fearful row about it in Vienna, I believe”
”Can't you tell me the point?”
”Not at the s exists We have it filed at the office Would you care to come?”
”It's just what I want I have to interview the fellow, and I need soive o with you now, if it is not too late”
Half an hour later I was seated in the newspaper office with a huge tome in front of me, which had been opened at the article ”Weiss, ”Spirited Protest at Vienna
Lively Proceedings” My scientific education having been soulish Professor had handled his subject in a very aggressive fashi+on, and had thoroughly annoyed his Continental colleagues ”Protests,” ”Uproar,” and ”General appeal to the Chairht ht have been written in Chinese for any definitethat it conveyed to lish for me,” I said, pathetically, to my help-mate
”Well, it is a translation”
”Then I'd better try inal”
”It is certainly rather deep for a layood, meaty sentence which seemed to convey some sort of definite human idea, it would serve ue way almost to understand it