forget his love of "Nature and Nature's children." She even saw
herself there, and this may have made her exhibit more interest
in
Herrick's experiment than she really felt. In any event, Herrick
found her most sympathetic' and when dinner was over carried her
off to a corner of the terrace. It was a warm night in early
October, and the great woods of the game preserve that stretched
below them were lit with a full moon.

On his way to the lake for a moonlight row with one of the house
party who belonged to that sex that does not row, but looks well
in
the moon-light, Kelly halted, and jeered mockingly.

"How can you sit there," he demanded, "while those poor beasts
are
freezing in a cave, with not even a silk coverlet or a
pillow-sham.
You and your valet ought to be down there now carrying them
pajamas."

"Kelly," declared Herrick, unruffled in his moment of triumph, "I
hate to say, 'I told you so,' but you force me. Go away," he
commanded. "You have neither imagination nor soul."

"And that's true," he assured Miss Waring, as Kelly and his
companion left them. "Now, I see nothing in what I accomplished
that is ridiculous. Had you watched those bears as I did, you
would
have felt that sympathy that exists between all who love the