I wonder why he is out here on foot ?" The horses quickened their paces.

The two friends rode along in silence.
Frowenfeld noticed his companion frequently cast an eye up along the distant sunset shadows of the road with a new anxiety.

Yet, when M.
Grandissime broke the silence it was only to say: "I suppose you find the blemishes in our state of society can all be attributed to one main defect, Mr.Frowenfeld ?" Frowenfeld was glad of the chance to answer: "I have not overlooked that this society has disadvantages as well as blemishes; it is distant from enlightened centres; it has a language and religion different from that of the great people of which it is now called to be a part.

That it has also positive blemishes of organism--" "Yes," interrupted the Creole, smiling at the immigrant's sudden magnanimity, "its positive blemishes; do they all spring from one main defect ?" "I think not.

The climate has its influence, the soil has its influence--dwellers in swamps cannot be mountaineers." "But after all," persisted the Creole, "the greater part of our troubles comes from--" "Slavery," said Frowenfeld, "or rather caste." "Exactly," said M.Grandissime.
"You surprise me, sir," said the simple apothecary.