ys had come to a beautiful and artistic end. Like a
great and wonderful bubble, wrought in many and enchanting colours, it
rose up complete at that moment from its birthplace and deathbed--and I
was happy again.

Then from the place down below us--that place in which we had striven
and apparently failed--I seemed to hear the voice of those who opposed
and hated us in our ways--those who were making the school into a
machine again--and were rejoicing in it, as they pumped in the oil:

"The Germans are verrmin--it is your work in life to _krrussch_ them!"

And at that very moment there came by three German prisoners--passed
us, jumped over the fence and were gone; but the likeness! it was more
than striking; never, never shall I forget it--and I was convinced.

The school, its very self, its soul, had struggled to its feet, and as
a little child was taking its first conscious steps--the most
beautiful, perhaps, that it was ever destined to take--when they, those
mechanicians, with their mailed fists smote it in the face, crushed it
heartlessly to the ground, with Louvain and Belgium not only before
their eyes but on their very lips.

"Oh, this world is a rotten place," he said, at my side.

"I wonder," I murmured in reply, and I still do....

J. A. A. J.

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