But when a man learned this secret the need of work must become permanent.
Did this explain the law of the Persians that every man was required to sweat every day?
Carley tried to picture to herself Glenn's attitude of mind when he had first gone to work here in the West.

Resolutely she now denied her shrinking, cowardly sensitiveness.

She would go to the root of this matter, if she had intelligence enough.

Crippled, ruined in health, wrecked and broken by an inexplicable war, soul-blighted by the heartless, callous neglect of government and public, on the verge of madness at the insupportable facts, he had yet been wonderful enough, true enough to himself and God, to fight for life with the instinct of a man, to fight for his mind with a noble and unquenchable faith.
Alone indeed he had been alone! And by some miracle beyond the power of understanding he had found day by day in his painful efforts some hope and strength to go on.

He could not have had any illusions.