window was locked next time, so that I shouldn't have to fight so hard.'

'You will have plenty of fighting. Don't shirk the hottest part of the
field; that isn't being brave.'

'Will you give me a horrid, ugly name, please, sir?'

'I thought your enemy's name was Teddy.'

'No, that's mine; I must have a name for him--a different one, you know.'

'How do you like Ego or Ipse?'

'What funny names! I think I like Ipse best I'll call him Ipse, shall I?'

But Mr. Upton's thoughts were far away by this time, and presently he
said, as if to himself, '"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death." "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through
Him that loved us." It is a fight with certain victory ahead; then why
do we fail?'

'Shall I fail?' questioned a soft voice by his side.

'"Without Me ye can do nothing." That's our Captain's word: if you fight
without Him, you are done for.'

'I think I shall sometimes let Ipse have his way. Will that be deserting
to the enemy?'

'It will be sure and certain defeat.'