You are a kind of eagle, trying to fly high on one wing.

You'll need the other! There, don't look at me in that savage way! I'm merely making my own comments on your position,--you needn't mind them.

I want to get out of the tangle-up of things you have suggested.

You fancy it would be easy to get the United States Government to purchase your discovery and pledge themselves to use it on occasion for the complete wiping out of a nation,--any nation--that decided to go to war,--and, failing their acceptance, or the acceptance of any government on these lines, you purpose doing the deed yourself.

Well!--I can tell you straight away it's no use my trying to negotiate such a business, The inhumanity of it is to palpable." "What of the inhumanity of war ?" asked Seaton.
"That PAYS!" replied Gwent, with emphasis--"You don't, or won't, seem to recognise that blistering fact! The inhumanity of war pays everybody concerned in it except the fellows who fight to order.