He rose abruptly, grasped his stick, and set off down the road.
I stood for a moment half-dazed; then I followed him.
"If soldiers only had their own way, this war would be short lasting."—Chapter XIII.
(The Cartoon, "An International Conference that would bring about Peace," by Bradley, in the "Chicago Daily News.")
CHAPTER XIV.
The Restless Masses.
What sort of man was this? "A man of God" and yet a murderer! A man without a spark of patriotism. A man without a country. What a curiosity in these days, when at the first blast of war almost every man on earth ranged himself beneath a nation's flag be it for strife or neutral!
Here was a man:—
Whose heart had ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he had turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand—