"Ask me an easy one," says the Boy. "But I know what the Jesuit Fathers would say."
"Jesuits and George Warren! Humph! precious little we'd agree about."
"You would about this. It flashed over me when I looked back and saw you peltin' after me."
"Small wonder I made for you! I'm not findin' fault, but what on earth put it into your head to go at me with your fists like that?"
"You'll never prove it by me. But when I saw you comin' at me like a mad bull, I thought to myself, thinks I, the Colonel and the Jesuits, they'd both of 'em say this was a direct answer to prayer."
CHAPTER XIII
THE PIT
"L'humanité a commencé tout entière par le crime .... C'était le vieux nourricier des hommes des cavernes."—ANATOLE FRANCE.
An old story now, these days of silent plodding through the driving snow.