With swift, joyous stride he threw himself into the hall and bounded down the steps.
"Suppose after all, Guardie, he should succeed?" Elena exclaimed.
"They'll start with many things in their favour," the Colonel responded. "The island of Ventura is said to be the most fertile and beautiful spot of earth in the West. No adverse influences can reach them from without. Five thousand men and women, inspired by a sublime faith in themselves, may under such conditions surprise us. If Socialism is possible on an island of a hundred thousand acres, it's possible on a hundred thousand square miles, and its faith will conquer the world. We'll give them two years before we visit them, and see what happens."
"Suppose they do succeed!" Elena repeated, musingly.
CHAPTER XIII[ToC]
THE BURNING OF THE BRIDGES
The success which attended the launching of the new Brotherhood of Man with its million-dollar endowment fund was phenomenal.