When I got to know Milligan well, I found that he had a large estate somewhere in Connaught.

And, as we talked, an idea came to me." Again he sprang up from his chair.

"'If I were a landowner on that scale,' I said, 'do you know what I should do--I should make a vegetarian colony; a self-supporting settlement of people who ate no meat, drank no alcohol, smoked no tobacco; a community which, as years went on, might prove to the world that there was the true ideal of civilised life--health of mind and of body, true culture, true humanity!'" The eyes glowed in his fleshless, colourless face; he spoke with arm raised, head thrown back--the attitude of an enthusiastic preacher.

"Milligan caught at the idea--caught at it eagerly.

'There's something fine in that!' he said.