turned out?"

"A scamp, I understand. Married a chorus girl and all that sort of
thing."

"Not exactly, but almost as bad. The girl was a waitress or something
like that in a restaurant. She's very common; her father died in
prison. You can imagine the blow to old Jeffries. He turned the boy
adrift and left him to shift for himself."

Alicia approached her husband, who was still talking with Judge
Brewster. She was leaning on the arm of a tall, handsome man with a dark
Van Dyke beard.

"Who are you discussing with such interest?" she demanded, as she came
up with her escort.

"We were talking of Captain Clinton and his detestable police methods,"
said the banker.

"Judge," said Alicia, turning to the lawyer, "allow me to introduce Dr.
Bernstein. Doctor, this is Judge Brewster."

The stranger bowed low, as he replied courteously:

"The fame of Judge Brewster has spread to every State in the Union."

A faint smile spread over the face of the famous lawyer as he extended
his hand:

"I've often heard of you, too, doctor. I've been reading with great
interest your book, 'Experimental Psychology.' Do you know," he went on
earnestly, "there's a lot in that. We have still much to learn in that
direction."

"I think," said Dr. Bernstein quietly, "that we're only on the threshold
of wonderful discoveries."

Pleased to find that her two distinguished guests were congenial, Alicia
left them to themselves and joined her other guests.

"Yes," said the lawyer musingly, "man has studied for centuries the
mechanism of the body, but he has neglected entirely the mechanism of
the mind."

Dr. Bernstein smiled approvingly.

"We are just waking up," he replied quickly. "People are beginning to
look upon psychology seriously. Up to comparatively recently the layman
has regarded psychology as the domain of the philosopher and the
dreamer. It did not seem possible that it could ever be applied to our
practical everyday life, but of late we have made remarkable strides.
Although it is a comparatively new science, you will probably be
astonished to learn that there are to-day in the United States fifty
psychological laboratories. That is to say, workshops fully
equipped with every device known for the probing of the human brain.
In my laboratory in California alone I have as many as twenty rooms
hung with electric wires and equipped with all the necessary
instruments--chronoscopes, kymographs, tachistoscopes, and ergographs,