and don't see how I can get in; there seems no way to get in,
except to be born in or to come in as an emigrant from some other
system."

Dr. Leete laughed heartily.

"I admit," he said, "that our system is defective in lacking provision
for cases like yours, but you see nobody anticipated additions to the
world except by the usual process. You need, however, have no fear that
we shall be unable to provide both a place and occupation for you in
due time. You have as yet been brought in contact only with the members
of my family, but you must not suppose that I have kept your secret. On
the contrary, your case, even before your resuscitation, and vastly
more since has excited the profoundest interest in the nation. In view
of your precarious nervous condition, it was thought best that I should
take exclusive charge of you at first, and that you should, through me
and my family, receive some general idea of the sort of world you had
come back to before you began to make the acquaintance generally of its
inhabitants. As to finding a function for you in society, there was no
hesitation as to what that would be. Few of us have it in our power to
confer so great a service on the nation as you will be able to when you
leave my roof, which, however, you must not think of doing for a good
time yet."

"What can I possibly do?" I asked. "Perhaps you imagine I have some
trade, or art, or special skill. I assure you I have none whatever. I
never earned a dollar in my life, or did an hour's work. I am strong,
and might be a common laborer, but nothing more."

"If that were the most efficient service you were able to render the
nation, you would find that avocation considered quite as respectable
as any other," replied Dr. Leete; "but you can do something else
better. You are easily the master of all our historians on questions
relating to the social condition of the latter part of the nineteenth
century, to us one of the most absorbingly interesting periods of
history: and whenever in due time you have sufficiently familiarized
yourself with our institutions, and are willing to teach us something
concerning those of your day, you will find an historical lectureship
in one of our colleges awaiting you."

"Very good! very good indeed," I said, much relieved by so practical a
suggestion on a point which had begun to trouble me. "If your people
are really so much interested in the nineteenth century, there will
indeed be an occupa