"Yes."
"Did you say you were going to"—he stopped and looked at a paper in his hand. Reading, he went on—"found an institution for the development of the psychic self in animals?"
"No!" she replied, with an emphatic shake of her head.
Dr. Zacharie threw up his hands with a gesture meant to express utter disbelief in her denial.
"The money," went on Paula, "was to be expended for the prevention of animal torture in the name of science."
Mr. Cooley now took a hand in the cross-examination.
"Isn't it a fact," he demanded, "that all these large bequests to societies for the psychic development of monkies or mice or old ladies, as the case may be, were made for the express purpose of preventing your Uncle James and his family from participating in the enjoyment of the family estate?"
"Exactly," answered Paula calmly.
Mr. Cooley gave vent to a noisy chuckle. Turning to Dr. McMutrie, he said:
"Ah! That establishes irresponsibility."