A QUESTION OF EXCHANGE Most of us need an opposite to sit by the hearth with us sometimes, and to stir us to wonder or to war.

Julian was Valentine's singularly complete and perfect opposite, in nature if not in deeds.

But, after all, it is the thoughts that are of account rather than the acts, to a mind like Valentine's.

He knew that Julian's nature was totally unlike his own, so singularly unlike that Julian struck just the right note to give the strength of a discord to the chord--that often seemed a common chord--of his own harmony.

Long ago, for this reason, or for no special reason, he had grown to love Julian.