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She had spoken these words with a quiet simplicity and earnestness that i alht into which sheher youth and her sex--and on thison which he had set hi and considerable preparation, he found hi her phrase--"Humanity dies because it will not learn how to live"

There was no fatalism,--no fixed destiny in this; only the force of Will was implied--the Will to learn,--the Will to know

"And why should not hu course of ages, it is proved that it will neither learn nor knohy should it reardener can produce a perfectly beautiful flower fronificant and common weed,--surely this is a lesson to us that it od froly on the case of shtened thelitter as of cold steel,--and for a moment he fancied they flashed upon hiood or power of evil?" he questioned his inward spirit--"Who can decide? If it is good to destroy evil then the force is a good force--if it is evil to destroy good WITH evil, then it is an evil thing But Nature makes no such particular discriether at one blow Why therefore should I--or anyone--offer to discri factor When the 'Lusitania' was torpedoed neither God nor Nature interfered to save the innocent froed into the pitiless sea I--as a part of Nature--if I destroy, I only follow her example War is an evil,--an abominable crime--and those that attempt to ood and peace-loving units are swept along with them This cannot be helped"

He went into his hut, and in a few ar a stout staff, steel-pointed at its end soht with him a smallit with a closely fitting lid Then he put the package into a baskethandle, to which he fastened a leather strap, and slung the whole thing over his shoulders like a knapsack Then, casting another look round to make sure that there was no one about, he started to walk towards a steeper descent of the hill in a totally different direction from that which led to the "Plaza" hotel He went swiftly, at a steady swinging pace,--and though his way took hiht nothing of these obstacles, vaulting lightly across them with the ease of a chamois, till he ca sheer down to invisible depths, fro water In this ales, like the precarious rungs of a broken ladder, and down these he prepared to go Clinging at first to the tope of the precipice, he let hiure entirely disappeared, sunken, as it were in darkness As he vanished there was a sudden cry--a rush as of wings--and a wo up from amid bushes where she had lain hidden,--it was Manella For days and nights she had stolen away in the intervals of her work, to watch hi had chanced to excite her alare from his hut and pack up thestrangely to himself in a way she could not understand