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clenched hands and was swaying slightly from side to side as tears squeezed forcefully throug his tightly closed eyelids. They were not tears of sadness, but tears of insuperable joy. I could not help but feel that one of the mild sins of this man was that he had never given himself to the joy of a woman’s love. I wondered for a moment what the meeting of Adam and a woman his equal Vatoowed would be like. and changed it immediately. “It's a crime,” he said, “to rape the beauty of the night with such demoniac noise.” He managed to find a faint station with tolerable music, and then came back to the table. I could feel that his emotional control was being strained, perhaps in anticipation of something he was to tell me in the story. It was only momentary, for he soon became his calm self again | and resumed his story. “root n rate aoa “I closed out my practice. Books, records, and things that I valued I packed away. The balance I gave to a fellow physician who was younger, and of whom I was fond. I went to see a few of my clients, more to ease the hurt and loneliness that was soon to wd cut r 11 ad od them anyhow, as they were all under the care of other physicians now. I never saw my office after it was cleared out. I knew it would be more than I could stand. “But that is gone into the past. As I said to you this evening, I searched and groped for straws to cling to, for some hope, for some finding of science that might cure my affliction. I found myself reaching through the limits of my familiar medical world into other fields of thought—I was putting myself in touch with a larger universe, which, though it had always beckoned to me, I had felt I did not have the time to explore. All my pursuits and oovo4d o 1. c interests had been confined to my own profession. “In the last few weeks, I have found what so few find. Believe me, my cup does run over.” I interrupted him for a moment. “Hold it, Adam, just for a moment. I told you that you 43 THE DANCE IN A GLASS The radio changed to rock and roll music. Adam jumped up come over me than to take care of them. I could not have treated