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Haldane kept his promise to spend an hour with hishis folly, he naturally tried to place his action in the best light possible After inducing her to take soe, and saw her safely on the train which would convey her to the city wherein she resided During the interview she grew much reater consideration for her son's feelings, and she urged and even entreated him to return home with her He remained firm, however, in his resolution, and would receive froh to sustain him until he could look around for ereatly doubting the issue of his large hopes and vague plans; but she could only assure him that her home, to which she returned crushed and disconsolate, was also his

But he felt that return was impossible He would rather wander to the ends of the earth than shut himself up with his mother and sisters, for he foresaw that their daily s would be daily torture It would be even worse to appear a his old acquaintances and companions, and be taunted with the fact that his first venture fro away to parts unknown, and of partially losing his identity by changing his naht of annihilation, and thus his purpose of reround of his defeat, grew an to learn how serious, how disheartening, is the condition of one who finds society arrayed against hiainst the "cold and pitiless world"; but the world has oftenthis character As society is now constituted, the consequences of wrong-doing are usually terrible and greatly to be dreaded; and all who have unhealthful cravings for forbidden things should be made to realize this Society very naturally treats harshly those who perer its very existence People who have toilsomely and patiently erected their homes and placed therein their treasures do not tolerate withthan that of recklessly playing with fire The well-to-do, conservative world has no inclination to ratify themselves at any and every cost; and if the culprit pleads, "I did not realize--I reat harer everything If you have not sense or principle enough to act wisely and well, do not expect us to risk our fortunes with either fools or knaves" And the ratification or transient advantage to that priceless possession, a good naround for corave offences which threaten chaos, thousands who are now restrained by salutary fear would act out disastrously the evil lurking in their hearts As long as the instinct of self-preservation remains, the world will seem cold and pitiless