THREE DAYS
Lincoln Graham in an the stages. He to learn all that had happened, pleased to of the and which Graham took in flying. Graham was in a mood of enthusiasm. "I must learn to fly," he cried. "I must master that. I all who have died without this opportunity. The sweet air! It is the most in the world."
"You will our new times full of experiences," said Lincoln. "I do not know what you will to do now. We have music that may novel."
"For the present," said Graham, "flying me. Let me learn more of that. Your was saying there is some to one's learning."
"There is, I believe," said Lincoln. "But for you—! If you would like to with that, we can make you a to-morrow."
Graham his and talked of his for a while. "And as for affairs," he asked abruptly. "How are going on?"
Lincoln aside. "Ostrog will tell you that to-morrow," he said. "Everything is settling down. The Revolution itself all over the world. Friction is here and there, of course; but your is assured. You may secure with in Ostrog's hands."
"Would it be possible for me to be a aeronaut, as you call it, forthwith—before I sleep?" said Graham, pacing. "Then I be at it the very thing to-morrow again…."
"It would be possible," said Lincoln thoughtfully. "Quite possible. Indeed, it shall be done." He laughed. "I came prepared to amusements, but you have one for yourself. I will telephone to the offices from here and we will return to your in the Wind-Vane Control. By the time you have the will be able to come. You don't think that after you have you might prefer—?" He paused.
"Yes," said Graham.
"We had prepared a of dancers—they have been from the
Capri theatre."
"I ballets," said Graham, shortly. "Always did. That other—. That's not what I want to see. We had dancers in the old days. For the of that, they had them in Egypt. But flying—"
"True," said Lincoln. "Though our dancers—"
"They can to wait," said Graham; "they can to wait. I know. I'm not a Latin. There's questions I want to ask some expert—about your machinery. I'm keen. I want no distractions."
"You have the world to choose from," said Lincoln; "whatever you want is yours."
Asano appeared, and under the of a they returned through the city to Graham's apartments. Far larger had assembled to his return than his had gathered, and the and of these of people sometimes Lincoln's to the questions Graham's had suggested. At Graham had the and of the by and gestures, but Lincoln him that such a would be behaviour. Graham, already a little by civilities, his for the of his public progress.
Directly they at his Asano in search of of in motion, and Lincoln Graham's for models of and small to the of the last two centuries. The little group of for the Master so that his prepared dinner, by a number of girls, waited for a space. The of had almost from the of the earth, but when he a wish for that indulgence, were and some excellent were in Florida, and sent to him by while the dinner was still in progress. Afterwards came the aeronauts, and a of in the hands of a latter-day engineer. For the time, at any rate, the of and machines, machines, engines, doorways, motors, and water elevators, slaughter-house and appliances, was more to Graham than any bayadère. "We were savages," was his refrain, "we were savages. We were in the age—compared with this…. And what else have you?"
There came also practical with some very in the art of hypnotism. The names of Milne Bramwell, Fechner, Liebault, William James, Myers and Gurney, he found, a value now that would have their contemporaries. Several practical of were now in use; it had drugs, and in medicine; was by almost all who had any need of concentration. A of to have been in this direction. The of "calculating boys," the wonders, as Graham had been to them, of mesmerisers, were now the range of anyone who the services of a hypnotist. Long ago the old methods in education had been by these expedients. Instead of years of study, had a of trances, and the expert had to repeat all the points necessary for answering, adding a of the post-hypnotic of these points. In particularly, this had been of service, and it was now by such players of and of manual as were still to be found. In fact, all operations under rules, of a quasi-mechanical that is, were now from the of and emotion, and to an of accuracy. Little children of the classes, so soon as they were of age to be hypnotised, were thus into and machine minders, and from the long, long of youth. Aeronautical pupils, who gave way to giddiness, be from their terrors. In every were to print permanent memories upon the mind. If anyone to a name, a series of numbers, a song or a speech, it be done by this method, and memories be effaced, removed, and eradicated—a of was, in fact, in use. Indignities, experiences, were thus forgotten, would their previous husbands, angry lovers themselves from their slavery. To desires, however, was still impossible, and the of were yet unsystematised. The their with some in through the agency of a of pale-faced children in blue.
Graham, like most of the people of his time, the hypnotist, or he might then and there have his mind of many painful preoccupations. But in of Lincoln's he to the old that to be was in some way the of his personality, the of his will. At the of that was beginning, he wanted very to himself.
The next day, and another day, and yet another day passed in such as these. Each day Graham many hours in the of flying. On the third, he across middle France, and of the snow-clad Alps. These gave him sleep; he almost from the of his awakening. And he was not in the air, and awake, Lincoln was in the of his amusement; all that was and in was to him, until at last his for was well-nigh glutted. One might a dozen with the they exhibited. Each he his for an hour or so. He his in his personal and intimate. At he had been for and peculiarity; any in their dress, any with his of in their and manners had upon him, and it was to him how soon that and the that from it, disappeared; how soon he came to the true of his position, and see the old Victorian days and quaint. He himself particularly by the red-haired of the Manager of the European Piggeries. On the second day after dinner he the of a latter-day dancing girl, and her an artist. And after that, more wonders. On the third day Lincoln was moved to that the Master should repair to a Pleasure City, but this Graham declined, would he accept the services of the in his experiments. The link of him to London; he a in that he would have missed abroad. "Here—or a hundred here," he say, "I used to eat my my London University days. Underneath here was Waterloo and the for trains. Often have I waiting there, in hand, and up into the sky above the of signals, little I should walk some day a hundred yards in the air. And now in that very sky that was once a canopy, I circle in a monoplane."
During those three days Graham was so with these that the political movements in progress his had but a small of his attention. Those about him told him little. Daily came Ostrog, the Boss, his Grand Vizier, his of the palace, to report in terms the of his rule; "a little trouble" soon to be settled in this city, "a disturbance" in that. The song of the social came to him no more; he learned that it had been in the limits; and all the great of the crow's in his mind.
But on the second and third of the three days he himself, in of his in the of the Pig Manager, or it may be by of the her suggested, the girl Helen Wotton, who had spoken to him so at the Wind-Vane Keeper's gathering. The impression, she had was a one, the of had him from upon it for a space. But now her memory was to its own. He what she had meant by those half-forgotten sentences; the picture of her and the of her more as his faded. Her came him and of passion. But he did not see her again until three full days were past.
