There was no justification for offensive war.

It was monstrous and hideous.

If nature and evolution proved the absolute need of strife, war, blood, and death in the progress of animal and man toward perfection, then it would be better to abandon this Christless code and let the race of man die out.
All through these weeks she longed for a letter from Glenn.

But it did not come.

Had he finally roused to the sweetness and worth and love of the western girl, Flo Hutter?
Carley knew absolutely, through both intelligence and intuition, that Glenn Kilbourne would never love Flo.