anner. The youth only smiled at her.

"Go on!" she said impatiently.

"I think possibly your father was right," he replied, "when he said you
'boss the show.'"

"Oh, that's what he said, eh? Well, I guess he's about right."

"But you don't really?"

"Don't what? 'Boss the show'? Well, I boss my own show, at any rate.
Don't you?"

"Don't I what, exactly? Boss the show? Well, I don't think we have any
'show,' and I don't believe we have any 'boss.' Dad and I just talk
things over, you see."

"But," she insisted, "some one in the last analysis must decide. Your
menage, no matter how simple, must have a head. It is a law of the
universe itself, and it is the law of mankind. You see, I have done some
political economy."

"And yet," said the young man, "you say you run your own show?"

"Exactly. Every social organism must have a head, but every individual
in the organism must live its own free life. That is true democracy. But
of course you don't understand democracy, you Canadians."

"Aha! There you are! You Americans are the most insular of all the great
peoples of the world. You know nothing of other people. You know only
your own history and not even that correctly, your own geography, and
your own political science. You know nothing of Canada. You don't
know, for instance, that the purest form of democracy on this American
continent lies outside the bounds of the U. S. A."

"In Canada?" she asked scornfully. "By the way, how many Canadians are
there?"

"Yes, I know. We are a small people," he said quietly, "but no more real
democracy exists anywhere in the world than in this country of mine. We
are a small people, but," he said, with a sweep of his hand toward the
west and the north, "the future is with us. The day is coming when
along this waterway great cities shall be, with factories and humming
industries. These plains, these flowing hills will be the home of
millions of men, and in my lifetime, too."

His eyes began to glow, his face to shine with a rare and fascinating
beauty.

"Do you know the statistics of your country? Do you know that during the
last twenty years the rate of Canada's growth was three times greater
than ever in the history of the United States? You are a great
commercial nation, but do you know that the per capita rate of Canada's
trade to-day is many times that of the United States? You are a great
agricultural people, but do you know that three-quarters of the wheat
land on