THE WINNING OF BROWETT A thoughtful Pagan once reported dignity to consist not in possessing honours, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

It is a theory fit to console multitudes.

Edom's young rector was not only consoled by it, he was stimulated.

To his ardent nature, the consciousness of deserving honour was the first vital step toward gaining it.

Those things that he believed himself to deserve he forthwith subjected to the magnetic rays of his desire: Knowing with the inborn certainty of the successful, that they must finally yield to such silent, coercing influence and soon or late gravitate toward him in obedience to the same law that draws the apple to the earth's lap.