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n print that they have had "afternoon-tea" with ladies of any title. "Deep in the heart of every woman is respect for the title or the decorative side of human life. A flower to her is something more than a thing. "You women will tell you you do not know them--and how could you?--you, a man who lived the greater part of your life in a monastery apart from your fellows, apart from the problems, apart from the battle against conditions that make men--men. You, in the seclusion of your own kind, conceived dreams of Utopian madness and you came forth and cast your foolish fancies like a net upon the ignorant. And now you find your failings; you see the petty smallness of your ideals and you retreat--back into your abbey like a frightened crab creeping beneath the cover of a stone." "I know it now," said the crestfallen man. "We can only learn our lessons through bitter experience." He turned upon his heel as if to leave. She was touched by the pathetic figure and held out her hand to him. He took it in his and bent over it. "Good-bye," he said. "I go home on this day of days, this day of 'peace on earth and good will to men'--and alas! the world a seething mass of discontent!" I brought him to the house and gave him some wine to drink. "Good-bye," he said. "God bless you." And he waved his hat as we watched the careworn figure slowly stroll down the track and pass out of our lives. CHAPTER XXXI. The Wonderful Month of War. Then the great war crashed upon Europe, and it did not come from Asia! Its sudden outbreak proved many things; first, that invention had not been entirely exterminated; and second, that artificial laws could not destroy the divine in humanity. Above all, the war proved that brawn could not suppress the aspiring flights of the brain; for during the socialistic era of "human equality," men with more highly developed inventive faculties, men who wished to cultivate the spirit that inspires the human to ever excel, met in mysterious places and plotted! They felt the time must eventually arrive when the unnatural social position the Humanists adopted must overbalance itself; hence they prepared for the impending cataclysm. It is strange, in the history of the world, how a thread of sympathy mysteriously binds together those whose souls are suffering from a common tyranny. Throughout Europe bands of scientific militants of both sexes met in secret conclave and pl
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