But I'm not sure," said little Bilham, "that I didn't like him about as well in his other state." "Then this IS really a new state altogether ?" "Well," the young man after a moment returned, "I'm not sure he was really meant by nature to be quite so good.

It's like the new edition of an old book that one has been fond of--revised and amended, brought up to date, but not quite the thing one knew and loved.

However that may be at all events," he pursued, "I don't think, you know, that he's really playing, as you call it, any game.

I believe he really wants to go back and take up a career.

He's capable of one, you know, that will improve and enlarge him still more.