The Human Chord

tionless and horizontal, in the air with its freight of sand. For several minutes the clergyman played a series of beautiful modulations in double

peculiarly intimate and searching tones by which strings can reach the spiritual center of

erstood that he was a gre

tling of the dry grains. It was uncommonly weird. This visible and practical result made the clergyman's astonishing wo

kale stopped playing

der the influence of the vibrations. "There's your pattern-your sound made visible. That

n the lines of sand had assumed, not unlike the fronds of a de

e exclaimed under his breath. "It's

we want. And now," he continued, straightening himself up to his full height, "come over and see mine and Miriam's and Mrs. Mawle's, and you'll understand what I meant when I said that yours would harmonize." And in a glass

's," he said, stooping to look. "They harmonize

and the housekeeper provided the base and foreground, those of Miriam and the secretary the delicate superstructure. The girl's pattern, he noted with a subtle pleasure, was curiously similar to his own, but far more delicate and waving. Y

them the color each sha

e tint of each timbre,

ould see better still

to a complete and

s. He could think of nothing quite intelligible to say. He noticed more clearly every minute that these dainty shapes of sand, stel

tones thrilling with satisfaction, "-three notes in harmony with the fundamental soun

n. "I don't quite understand it all yet, but it'

to hear. The Discovery and the Experiment of this singular man loomed already somewhat vast and terrible; the adjective that had suggested itself before returned to him-"not permissible." ... Of Mr. Skale himself he had no sort of fear, though a growing and uncommon respect, but of the purpose Mr. Skale had in view

you; only-you will forgive me for saying it-I am, as yet, still rather in the dark as to where all this is to lea

he other steadily. "I wish you to be thoroughly prepared for anything that may happen

" faltered h

n of Form by Sound. It is somewhat-er-alarming, I believe, the first time. You must be thoroughly accustomed to these astonishing results before we dare to approach the final Experiment; so tha