l the emotions of the
excitable Viennese had been aroused.

As far as John could see the multitude ran, and the packed heads seemed
to rise and fall like waves of the sea. Troops in magnificent uniforms
of the most vivid colors were everywhere. The day itself seemed to be
ablaze with their gorgeousness. If John had been asked to define the
chief difference between Europe and America he would have replied that
it was a matter of uniforms.

The crowd which seemed already to fill every space nevertheless grew
larger, and waves of emotion ran through it. John did not think they
could be defined in any other way. At home people differed in their
opinions, every man to his own, but here they appeared to receive them
from somebody higher up, and the crowd always swayed together, to this
point or that, according to the directing power.

He had never before seen so much emotional excitement. Vienna's thrill,
so obvious the night before, had carried over into the day, increasing
as it went along, and it was a happy intoxication, infectious in its
nature. He began to feel it in his own veins, although his judgment told
him that it was no business of his. Yet the brilliant uniforms, the
shimmer of steel, the vast shifting crowd of eager faces, the deep and
unbroken murmur of anticipation would have moved an older and dryer
mind.

Anticipatory shouts arose. They were in German, but John knew that they
meant: "He comes!" Nevertheless "he," which was the Emperor, did not yet
come, and the crowd thickened and thickened. He saw the people
stretching along leafy avenues, and in the distance they were wedged
into a solid mass, faces and figures running together, until they
presented the complete likeness of the waving sea.

"A strange sight and highly interesting," said the Senator oratorically.
"It must take generations of education to teach a people to make a
symbol of one man. And yet if we could get at the reality we'd surely
find him a poor and broken creature."

"Man doesn't always grow according to his nature, he's shaped by
continual pressure," said Mr. Anson.

John scarcely heard either of them, because he saw far down the avenue
that the waves of the human sea were rolling higher than before. An
increasing volume of sound also came from that solid sheet of faces, and
it seemed to part slightly in the center, as if a sword had been thrust
between. Carriages, automobiles and the flame of uniforms appeared in
the cut. A ro