But I want to understand." "Then let's return to the 'Pilgrim's Progress.' Ann and I were talking about it this morning.

Do you remember the man with the pack on his back and how when he reached a certain spot the pack, seemingly without effort of his own, fell off and was seen no more ?" Willits reflected.

The doctor was thoroughly in earnest now.

"I seem to recollect the incident to which you refer," he said after a pause.

"If I remember rightly it is an allegory and is used in a definitely religious sense.