h as you like. Yet
I will tell you one thing to remember--just one, as you have told me one:
You are in a world of law, of unvarying cause and effect; and the
integrity of this law cannot be destroyed, nor even impaired, by any
conceivable rebellion of yours. Yet this material world of law is but the
shadow of the reality, and that reality is God--the moral law if you
please, as relentless, as inexorable, as immutable in its succession of
cause and effect as the physical laws more apparent to us; and as little
to be overthrown as physical law by any rebellion of disordered sentiment.
The word of this God and this Law is contained in the Scriptures of the
Old and New Testaments, wherein is the only rule to direct us how we may
glorify and enjoy Him.

"Now," continued the old man, more lightly, "each of us has something to
remember--and let each of us pray for the other. Go, be a good boy--but
careless and happy--for a year."

The old man had his way, and the two boys went presently back to their
studies.

The girl, Nancy, remembered them well for the things each had said to her.

Allan, who, though he constantly praised her, had always the effect of
leaving her small to herself. "Really, Nance," he said, "without any
joking, I believe you have a capacity for living life in its larger
aspects."

And on the last day, Bernal had said, "Nance, you remember when we were
both sorry you couldn't be born again--a boy? Well, from what the old
gentleman says, one learns in time to bow to the ways of an inscrutable
Providence. I dare say he's right. I can see reasons now, my girl, why it
was well that you were not allowed to meddle with Heaven's allotment of
your sex. I'm glad you had to remain a girl."

One compliment pleased her. The other made her tremble, though she laughed
at it.

CHAPTER IV

A FEW LETTERS

(From Bernal Linford to the Reverend Allan Delcher.)

_Dear Grandfather:_ The college year soon ends; also my course. I think
you hoped I wouldn't want again to talk of those matters. But it isn't so.
I am primed and waiting, and even you, old man, must listen to reason. The
world of thought has made many revolutions since you shut yourself into
that study with your weekly church paper. So be ready to hear me.

Affectionately,
BERNAL LINFORD.

(From the Reverend Allan Delcher to Bernal Linford.)

"Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have
sought out many inventions