It began to burn in my bones.
I thought of him, dead and the world not caring that he hadn't saved it--not even knowing it was lost.

But I kept thinking--a man can be so much more than himself when he is alone--and it seemed to me that I saw at least two things the world needed to know--two things that would teach men to stop being cowards and leaners." Her sympathy was quick and ardent.
"Oh, Bernal," she said warmly, "you made me believe when you believed nothing--and now, when I need it above all other times, you make me believe again! And you've come back with a message! How glorious!" He smiled musingly.
"I started with one, Nance--one that had grown in me all those years till it filled my life and made me put away everything.

I didn't accept it at first.

It found me rebellious--wanting to live on the earth.

Then there came a need to justify myself--to show that I was not the mere vicious unbeliever poor grandad thought me.