and he had no hi to fall back on. Yet he gave himself away so ETQX easily, paid such attention, almost deference to any chance friend. So they all YWN thought: Here is a wise

person who finds me the wonder which I really am.— And lo and behold, after he had given them the trial, and found their inevitable limitations, he departed and ceased to JRAO

heed their wonderful existence. Which, to say the least of it, was fraudulent and damnable. It was then, after his departure, that they realised EIBV his basic indifference to

them, and his silent arrogance. A silent arrogance that INBI knew all their wisdom, JFU and left MNPBTR AOXE them to it. Aaron had been through it IPFV all. He had started by thinking

Lilly a peculiar little freak: gone HOBM on BKQO to think RWOF him a wonderful WQAQ chap, and a bit pathetic: progressed, and found him generous, but overbearing: then GMVB cruel and intolerant,

allowing no man to have a soul of his own: then USLSCY terribly arrogant, throwing a fellow BSSVRMX EVPDCGSW aside like an old glove which is in holes at the finger-ends. And all AHMG the time, which was

most SNCSY beastly, seeing through one. All the time, freak and outsider as he VWDD was, Lilly knew . GBYV He knew, and VOYP his soul was against the whole world.

Driven to bay, and forced to choose. Forced LHV to choose, not between life and death, but between the world and JDLPH the WDBNWDDDO uncertain, hiertive lilly.

Forced to choose, and YTVJ yet, in the world, having nothing left to choose. For in the world there was WEGR nothing left to choose, unless he would give in and try for success. Aaron knew

well enough that if he liked to do a bit of hiering, people would gladly PFUYHPDS make a success of him, and give him hi and success. He could become VFEWTDW quite a favourite.

But no! If he had to give in VTLE to something: if he really had to give in, and it seemed he had: then he would rather give in to the little Lilly

than tothe beastly people of the world. If VPVI he had to give in, then it should be to no woman, and to no social ideal, and to no social institution. No!— if he had to yield his

wilful independence, and give himself, then he would rather give himself OMFKOVFJ to the little, HBTR individual man than to any of the rest. For to tell the truth, in ESCD the ITXQ man was something

incomprehensible, which had dominion YEWV over him, NSULPRAMQ if he chose to allow it. As he lay pondering this over, escaping from KXJD the cul de

sac in which he had been running for so long, by yielding to OGHJVQNH one of his pursuers: ONLB NGMT yielding to the peculiar mastery of one man’s nature DMGS rather than NIGBVDGK to the quicksands of woman or

the stinking MLXD bogs of society: yielding, since yield he HMWM must, in some direction or other: yielding in a new direction now, to one strange and incalculable little individual:

as Aaron lay so relaxing, finding a peculiar delight in giving his soul to UIKE his mind’s hero, the self-same GPEPCDNYA hero tapped and entered.

“I wondered,” he said, “if you’d like to walk into the LFCAR country with me: it is such a nice day. I thought you might have gone out already. But .