THE HEATHEN QUEST They stood together by the open fire in the study, Jack and his father, alike in many ways yet producing effects very different.

The younger man had the physical makeup of the older, though of a slighter mould.
They had the same high, proud look of conscious strength, of cool fearlessness that nothing could fluster.

But the soul that looked out of the grey eyes of the son was quite another from that which looked out of the deep blue eyes of the father--yet, after all, the difference may not have been in essence but only that the older man's soul had learned in life's experience to look out only through a veil.
The soul of the youth was eager, adventurous, still believing, yet with a certain questioning and a touch of weariness, a result of the aftermath of peace following three years of war.

There was still, however, the out-looking for far horizons, the outreaching imagination, the Heaven given expectation of the Infinite.

In the older man's eye dwelt chiefly reserve.