t I can promise
you that you will find them unpleasant. I have an eye on
several other people also and if it is possible for you to
stop any of the mischief you have set going you must do it.
It would take too long to speak of all the people you have
started in evil ways with your insidious, damnable
philosophy, and would probably be useless, too. But there is
young Mark Fenlow, on the down grade already, though out of
college less than a year. And it was you who put him there.

"Oh, I know how blameless you consider yourself! I know you
say it is the right of every one to taste every pleasure
within his reach; that it is necessary for one's all-round
development to know all sides of life; that it adds not only
to one's pleasure, but also to his knowledge of life and so
to his personal power to try for himself every possible new
experience. You are strong enough to dabble in every filthy
pool you encounter, and then to let it alone and go on to
another. You live your philosophy and, so far as others can
see, although you and I know better, you are none the worse
for it. You are a promising young architect, already winning
wealth and fame, a charming fellow, a handsome genius, whose
friendship is worth having and whose example it is surely
all right to follow! But what about those who do follow it
and have less will power and perhaps less of that
self-control that ambition gives? Are you so hide-bound in
your selfishness that you feel no responsibility for them?

"But I know you are. And so I demand that you do something
to try to keep Mark Fenlow away from the gaming table and
make him understand what will be the outcome of the way he
is going now. There's Robert Moreton, too. He begins to look
like a dope fiend. I don't know whether he is or not, but he
looks it. If he is, it is all because you described to him
what a wonderful experience you had when you spent a night
in an opium joint and told him he'd better try it, just to
see what it was like. I want you to look him up, put him
into a sanitarium and, if he needs it, help him financially.

"There are many others, but I can not stop to speak of them
all now. Your own conscience ought to tell you of them--if,
indeed, you have a conscience, except for me--and move you
to