"Your questions,
sir, and your way of putting the case confuse me."

"And you, Pitson?" Dick demanded, eyeing the third man. "Knowing
that, if you are sent to some non-combatant work, some other man
will have to be sent to this company to do your killing work for
you, you wish to dodge fighting duty?"

"Yes, sir; I do," Pitson answered unhesitatingly.

"Pitson, consider the matter seriously and try to decide whether
you're a moral hero or a physical coward!"

"Sir, I am no mor-----"

Here the man hesitated, growing red in the face.

"Out with it," Dick smiled coolly.

"I am a conscientious objector, sir," Pitson rejoined. "No matter
what punishment may await me for refusing, I _must_ decline to
accept any duty that may call upon me to kill another human being."

"Yet you would call a policeman, in the case of finding a burglar
in your house?"

"Not if I thought the policeman would have to kill the burglar,
sir," Pitson protested.

"I'll wager the fellow is lying, at that," Prescott reflected,
as he rose. "Take off your hat, Pitson."

The soldier obeyed. His forehead sloped up and back. The back
of his head sloped up and forward, so that the top of his head was
pointshaped.

"I've been interested in seeing what the head of a real conscientious
objector looked like," Dick remarked slowly. "I've seen your
head and from its shape I believe you to be a real conscientious
objector. I am going to approve your transfer to a non-combatant
branch, Pitson. You may step outside until you are sent for again."

After Pitson had gone Dick ordered the two remaining men to remove
their campaign hats. He studied the shapes of their heads so
attentively that both young men winced plainly under the inspection.

"Your heads are shaped differently from Pitson's," Prescott went
on. "The top of his head goes up to a point. If a mule had a
head shaped like that our veterinary surgeons would call it a
fool mule and reject it. But you men have heads expressing more
intelligence.

"What is the matter with you two? Have you been listening to
socialistic or other freak talk? Do you realize that the German
Kaiser and his nation threaten the freedom of the world? Do you
realize that the Germans want to rule this world, and do you know
how they would rule it, and what a miserable, impossible world
it would be for free men to live in?

"Do you realize that the only way we can stop the Germans from
ruling the world