elma. Jane was disappointed that the voice was not untamed Cossack,
but was musically civilized.

"Yes, but I don't flaunt it as you do," rejoined Jane. "You'd make
anyone who was the least bit off, furious."

Selma, still with the child-like expression, but now one of curiosity,
was examining Jane's masculine riding dress. "What a sensible suit!"
she cried, delightedly. "I'd wear something like that all the time, if
I dared."

"Dared?" said Jane. "You don't look like the frightened sort."

"Not on account of myself," explained Selma. "On account of the cause.
You see, we are fighting for a new idea. So, we have to be careful not
to offend people's prejudices about ideas not so important. If we went
in for everything that's sensible, we'd be regarded as cranks. One
thing at a time."

Jane's glance shifted to the fourth picture. "Didn't you say that
was--Karl Marx?"

"Yes."

"He wrote a book on political economy. I tried to read it at college.
But I couldn't. It was too heavy for me. He was a Socialist--wasn't
he?--the founder of Socialism?"

"A great deal more than that," replied Selma. "He was the most
important man for human liberty that ever lived--except perhaps one."
And she looked at Leonardo's "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief."

"Marx was a--a Hebrew--wasn't he?"

Selma's eyes danced, and Jane felt that she was laughing at her
hesitation and choice of the softer word. Selma said:

"Yes--he was a Jew. Both were Jews."

"Both?" inquired Jane, puzzled.

"Marx and Jesus," explained Selma.

Jane was startled. "So HE was a Jew--wasn't He?"

"And they were both labor leaders--labor agitators. The first one
proclaimed the brotherhood of man. But he regarded this world as
hopeless and called on the weary and heavy laden masses to look to the
next world for the righting of their wrongs. Then--eighteen centuries
after--came that second Jew"--Selma looked passionate, reverent
admiration at the powerful, bearded face, so masterful, yet so
kind--"and he said: 'No! not in the hereafter, but in the here. Here
and now, my brothers. Let us make this world a heaven. Let us redeem
ourselves and destroy the devil of ignorance who is holding us in this
hell.' It was three hundred years before that first Jew began to
triumph. It won't be so long before there are monuments to Marx in
clean and beautiful and free cities all over the earth."

Jane listened intensely. There was admiri