"I know of something that will alter that antagonism, something that is outside us, something that you and I have all our lives perhaps taken too little account of. The equal and eternal human being will alter that antagonism, for the human being sees no real antagonism between laughter and respect, the human being, the common man, whom mere geniuses like you and me can only worship like a god. When dark and dreary days come, you and I are necessary, the pure fanatic, the pure satirist. We have between us remedied a great wrong. We have lifted the modern cities into that poetry which every one who knows mankind knows to be immeasurably more common than the commonplace. But in healthy people there is no war between us. We are but the two lobes of the brain of a ploughman. Laughter and love are everywhere. The cathedrals, built in the ages that loved God, are full of blasphemous grotesques. The mother laughs continually at the child, the lover laughs continually at the lover, the wife at the husband, the friend at the friend. Auberon Quin, we have been too long separated; let us go out together. You have a halberd and I a sword, let us start our wanderings over the world. For we are its two essentials. Come, it is already day." In the blank white light Auberon hesitated a moment. Then he made the formal salute with his halberd, and they went away together into the unknown world. THE END _Mr. Lane's New Fiction_ THE NEW MILITARY NOVEL. LIFE IN A GARRISON TOWN. ("Aus einer kleinen Garnison"). By LIEUTENANT BILSE. The Military Novel suppressed by the German Government. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. MY FRIEND PROSPERO: A Novel. By HENRY HARLAND. Crown 8vo. 6s. _By the same Author_. THE CARDINAL'S SNUFF-BOX. Illustrated. 6s. THE LADY PARAMOUNT. 6s. COMEDIES AND ERRORS. 6s. MADEMOISELLE MISS. 3s. 6d. GREY ROSES. 3s. 6d. net. OLD SHROPSHIRE LIFE. By LADY CATHERINE MILNES GASKELL. With Sixteen Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s. CHARMS: A Novel. By THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF IDDESLEIGH, Author of "Luck o' Lassendale." Crown 8vo. 6s. ISABEL BRODERICK: A Novel. By ALICE JONES. Crown 8vo. _6s_. THE FISHERS: A Novel. By J. HENRY HARRIS. Crown 8vo. _6s_. PERRONELLE: A Novel. By VALENTINA HAWTREY. Crown 8vo. _6s_. THE PHILANTHROPIST: A Novel. By J. F. CAUSTON, Author of "The Comedy of a Suburban Chapel." Crown 8vo. _6s_. THE YEOMAN: A Novel. By CHARLES KENNETT BURROW. Crown 8vo. _6s_. THE TYRANTS OF NORTH HYBEN: A Novel. By FRANK DILNOT. Crown 8vo. _6s_. A BEAUTIFUL ART BOOK. A MASQUE OF MAY MORNING. By WILLIAM GRAHAM ROBERTSON. With Twelve Full-Page Illustrations in Colour by the Author. Fcap. 4to. JOHN LANE, PUBLISHER, LONDON & NEW YORK