you know," she
said, "you remind me of Lot's wife. She was told to go ahead, along
the right course. But she looked back--alas for her! Now you two being
started right are looking back; and you are about to turn to salt
tears!

"Now listen," she continued, as Haynerd began to remonstrate; "don't
voice a single fear to me! You couldn't make me believe them true even
if you argued for weeks--and we have no time for such foolishness
now. The first thing that you have got to do, Ned, is to start a
little cemetery. In it you must bury your fears, right away, and
without any mourning. Put up little headstones, if you wish; but don't
ever go near the place afterward, excepting to plant the insults, and
gibes, and denouncements, and vilifications which the human mind will
hurl at you, once the Express starts out on its new career. Good is
bound to stir up evil; and the Express is now in the business of good.
Remember, the first thing the Apostles always did was to be afraid.
And they kept Jesus busy pointing out the nothingness of their
fears."

"Business of good!" retorted Haynerd savagely. "I guess we'll find
ourselves a bit lonely in it, too!"

"True, humanly speaking," replied the girl, taking a chair beside him.
"But, Ned, let me tell you of the most startling thing I have found in
this great, new country. It is this: you Americans have, oh, so much
animal courage--and so little true moral courage! You know that the
press is one of the most corrupt institutions in America, don't you?
The truth is not in it. Going into thousands of homes every day, it is
a deadlier menace than yellow fever. You know that it is muzzled by
so-called religious bodies, by liquor interests, by vice-politicians,
by commercialism, and its own craven cowardice. And yet, Ned, despite
your heart-longing, you dare not face the world and stand boldly for
righteousness in the conduct of the Express!

"Now," she went on hurriedly, "let me tell you more. While you have
been debating with your fears as you awaited Mr. Carlson's decision, I
have been busy. If I had allowed my mentality to become filled with
fear and worry, as you have done, I would have had no room for real,
constructive thought. But I first thanked God for this grand
opportunity to witness to Him; and then I put out every mental
suggestion of failure, of malicious enmity from the world, and from
those who think they do not love us, and with it every subtle argument
about the unprepar