conditions--the treadmill of conditions-- the straight jacket of
conditions. Change the conditions and you change the animal.''

When he was swinging his big powerful form across the lawns
toward the fringe of woods, Jane and her father looking after
him, Jane said:

``He's wonderfully clever, isn't he?''

``A dreamer--a crank,'' replied the old man.

``But what he says sounds reasonable,'' suggested the daughter.

``It SOUNDS sensible,'' admitted the old man peevishly. ``But it
ain't what _I_ was brought up to call sensible. Don't you get
none of those fool ideas into your head. They're all very well
for men that haven't got any property or any
responsibilities--for flighty fellows like Charlton and that
there Victor Dorn. But as soon as anybody gets property and has
interests to look after, he drops that kind of talk.''

``Do you mean that property makes a man too blind or too cowardly
to speak the truth?'' asked Jane with an air of great innocence.

The old man either did not hear or had no answer ready. He said:

``You heard him say that Davy Hull was going to win?''

``Why, he said Victor Dorn was going to win,'' said Jane, still
simple and guileless.