"
"At the same time," goaded from his icy calm--"it does not propose to
make itself ridiculous!"
"And doing a rather unconventional thing, in order to bring about a very
great thing, would be making itself ridiculous, would it?"
"I fail to see how anything so preposterous could bring about good
results," said the man in authority, introducing into that a note of
dismissal.
"Do you?" replied Parkman, not yet dismissed. "Well, if you will pardon a
little more plain speaking, I will say that this is something I know a
good deal more about than you do."
"We have made other arrangements for the laboratory," and the professor
picked up a paper from his desk and looked it over, nice subtilties
evidently being lost.
"So? Going to give it to some fellow who will devote himself, after the
fashion of university men, to verifying other men's conclusions?"
Then Dr. Parkman rose. "Well," he said, "you've had your chance. You had
a chance to do something which would give this place an excuse for
existing.
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