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"Let the nations beware how they gamble with their own lives!" retorted Seaton--"You say war is a --let them take heed how they touch money coined in human blood! I--one ence,--I say and swear there shall be noalmost supernatural in the expression of his face--his attitude, proudly erect, offered a kind of defiance to the world,--and involuntarily Gwent, looking at hiht of the verse in the Third Psalm-"I laid me down and slept; I awaked for the Lord sustained me I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people that have set theainst me round about"

"No--he would not be afraid!" Gwentas fear! But--if it knew--the world ht be afraid of HIM!"

Aloud he said--"Well, you may put an end to war, but you will never put an end to men's hatred and envy of one another, and if they can't 'let the stea, they'll find some other hich may be worse If you come to consider it, all nature is at ith itself,--it's a perpetual struggle to live, and it's evident that the struggle was intended and ordained as universal law Life would be pretty dull without effort--and effort ainst whoainst whatever or whoever opposes the effort," replied Gwent, promptly--"There must be opposition, otherwise effort would be unnecessary My good fellow, you've got an idea that you can alter the fixed plan of things, but you can't The cleverest of us are only like goldfish in a glass bowl--they see the light through, but they cannot get to it The old ship of the world will sail on its appointed way to its destined port,--and the happiest creatures are those who are content to sail with it in the faith that God is at the hel at his own sudden eloquence, then added--"By-the-by, where is your laboratory?"

"Haven't got one!" replied Seaton, briefly

"What! Haven't got one! Why, how do youto tell you? Mr Senator Gwent, you take reater fool than I am! My 'stuff' needs neither fire nor crucible,--the forton, but I wanted quiet and solitude to finish what I had begun It is finished now That's why I sent for you to h"