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"Mrs Lenox and I have been longer in the game than you, Dick," answered

his host whierously near the equator; and

we do not find ourselves exhausted On the contrary, I rather think the

scenery i"

"You are hardly capable ofthe common fate You have had the

touchstone of success, and the world has opened up before you But what

depress me and impress me are the sodden people who ht of theirs There

are such millions of us, obscure and uncounted except on the census"

"If you will persist in talking serious things," said Ellery, "isn't

obscurity, after all, an internal and not an external quality? You've

got to believe that you are a creature that is worth while There is no

bitterness in belonging to the nified by nature"

"But are they?" cried Dick, now rousing himself "I look at every face I

pass on the street I'm always on the search for soreed answer one astray"

"Then it belongs to you to be the hundredth who does not go astray; and

who gives a satisfactory answer to the sa that

iven to any man to play a

neutral part in the world conflict In all the nificent interplay of