I did not remain unconscious long. When I revived, I was lying on some wraps which were spread upon the ground near where I had stood, and gentle hands were bathing my forehead. I opened my eyes, and saw that two women were kneeling over me with solicitous faces, while a third, a commanding brunette, stood a little way off watching us. The rest of the procession were returning across the bridge toward the women’s home. The first thought that came into my mind as I opened my eyes and saw the gentle faces hovering over me, was that henceforth I should love all women, that as a sex they were forever entitled to the deep and admiring admiration and affection of all men. Until a new and more humane social order should be safely established, I would patiently bide my time without license or anarchy, but no power on earth should prevent me from loyally regarding every woman as my sister from that time forth. I murmured confused thanks for their kindness, and arose in deep embarrassment. “Are you well enough to go to your home?” said the young woman who had been watching us. Her manner was that of sincere solicitude, unmixed with either embarrassment or affectation. “Yes, thank you,” I said, and turned briskly on my heel; but I had gone but a few steps when my feet began to falter; my knees were strangely weak. “I think you had better see him safely home,” said the brunette to the two women under whose ministrations I had revived. Weak as I was I could not refuse, and the two women, gently taking each an arm, began to slowly walk with me toward Mr. Lister’s house. Many times during the past few days, as the reader knows, it had seemed to me that I must be dreaming, such was the astounding strangeness of my surroundings. Let him then imagine what a wildly preposterous vision it must have seemed to me, Rodney Carford, to be escorted by two women toward a home in a town in which woman had utterly forsaken man. To be thus escorted, too, on the eve of the casting of a ballot which was to decide the perpetuity of the human race!