ercise we call dance, they
all believe in the after life of the soul. This belief is as much a
PART of any man, ever born in any location, as his hands and his feet.
Whether he believes his soul enters a cat and works back to man again
after long transmigration, or goes to a Happy Hunting Ground as our
Indians, makes no difference with the fact that he enters this world
with belief in after life of some kind. We see material evidence in
increase that man is not defeated in his desire to reproduce himself;
we have advanced to something better than tom-toms and pow-wows for
music and dance; these desires are fulfilled before us, now tell me why
the very strongest of all, the most deeply rooted, the belief in after
life, should come to nothing. Why should the others be real, and that
a dream?"

"I don't think it is," said Robert.

"It's my biggest self-evident fact," said Kate, conclusively. "I never
heard any one else say these things, but I think them, and they are
provable. I always believed there was something; but since I saw
Mother go, I know there is. She stood in full evening light, I looked
straight in her face, and Robert, you know I'm no creature of fancies
and delusions, I tell you I SAW HER SOUL PASS. I saw the life go from
her and go on, and on. I saw her body stand erect, long enough for me
to reach her, and pick her up, after its passing. That I know."

"I shouldn't think of questioning it, Kate," said Robert. "But don't
you think you are rather limiting man, when you narrow him to four
primal instincts?"

"Oh, I don't know," said Kate. "Air to breathe and food to sustain are
presupposed. Man LEARNS to fight in self-defense, and to acquire what
he covets. He learns to covet by seeing stronger men, in better
locations, surpass his achievements, so if he is strong enough he goes
and robs them by force. He learns the desire for the chase in food
hunting; I think four are plenty to start with."

"Probably you are right," said the doctor, rising. "I must go now.
Shall I take you home?"

Kate glanced at the sun and shook her head. "I can stay half an hour
longer. I don't mind the walk. I need exercise to keep me in
condition. Good-bye!"

As he started his car he glanced back. She was leaning over the
flowers absorbed in their beauty. Kate sat looking straight before her
until time to help with the evening work, and prepare supper, then she
arose. She stood looking down a long time; f