other people's affairs enough at home you get sent where you can
get right in the business--and earn salvation for doing it. I
don't know just why I should say this to you, but it sort of does
me good to tell it. Once I heard one of your kind tell a sorrowing
mother that her little child had gone to hell because it had died
before he--the smug hypocrite--had sprinkled its little body with a
handful of water. There's humanity for you! It may interest you
to know that I thrashed that man then and there. You are all
alike; I know the breed. When there is found a real man among
you--and there are such--he is so different in everything,
including his religion, as to be really of another race. I came
here without the slightest expectation of getting what I asked for.
As I said before, I know your breed, and I know just how well your
two-thousand-year-old doctrines apply to practical cases. There is
another way, but I hated to use it. You'd take it quick enough, I
dare say. Here is where I should receive aid. I may have to get
it where I should not. You a man of God! Why, you poor little
insect, I can't even get angry at you!"

He stood for a moment looking at the confused and troubled
clergyman. Then he went out.




Chapter Ten

Almost immediately the door opened again,

"You, Miss Albret!" cried Crane.