his tone
was still uneasy.

'Look here, Richard,' said his brother, 'the feelings which I know are
in your mind are the feelings which make such an immense gulf between
class and class. Now, confess that you are not quite comfortable
because Dick has a deep regard for a wharf-rat out of Skinner's Hole.'

'I confess it,' said Mr. Elliott frankly.

'Exactly,' returned his brother; 'there is no saying more frequent on
our lips than that we must look, not at the coat, but at the man inside
it; but it remains a saying--it has little or no effect on our thoughts
and actions. The rich look with suspicion on the poor; the poor repay
that suspicion with hatred. This brings about jealousy and distrust
between class and class, and gives rise to any amount of bad
citizenship. I declare and I believe that if those who have would only
try to understand the difficulties and the trials of those who have
not, and would help them in a reasonable fashion--not with money;
that's the poorest sort of help--we should see an immense advance in
good citizenship.'

'And what is your ideal of good citizenship, old fellow?' asked Mr.
Elliott.

'All for each, and each for all,' replied his brother.

'Why, Jim,' laughed the elder man, 'I never heard you break out in this
style before. I never knew you set up for a social reformer.'

'Oh,' said James Elliott, smiling, 'I don't know that I claim any big
title such as that. But, you know, I was in the Colonies some eight or
nine years, and I learned a good deal then that you stay-at-homes never
pick up. Out there a man has to stand on his own feet, while here he
is often propped up with his father's money.'

'And that's true enough,' agreed the elder. 'Well, then, Jim, you
think this scouting movement is of real service?'

'I am convinced of it,' said the other. 'Even in our little circle it
has thrown together a group of boys belonging to the middle classes and
another group whose parents are the poorest sort of dock labourers. I
have watched them closely, and the results are good, and nothing but
good. I am delighted that I have been given the chance to have a hand
in bringing about such results. What were their former relations?
They used to shout insulting names at each other, and fight. That
boyish enmity would have deepened and embittered itself into class
hatred had it continued. But in their friendly patrol contests the
boys have learned to know and like each other, an