Why not stop this perpetual devilish fighting and give Bibbs his chance ?" Sheridan stood looking at him fixedly.

"What 'fighting ?'" "Yours--with nature." Gurney sustained the daunting gaze of his fierce antagonist equably.

"You don't seem to understand that you've been struggling against actual law." "What law ?" "Natural law," said Gurney.

"What do you think beat you with Edith?
Did Edith, herself, beat you?
Didn't she obey without question something powerful that was against you?
EDITH wasn't against you, and you weren't against HER, but you set yourself against the power that had her in its grip, and it shot out a spurt of flame--and won in a walk! What's taken Roscoe from you?
Timbers bear just so much strain, old man; but YOU wanted to send the load across the broken bridge, and you thought you could bully or coax the cracked thing into standing.

Well, you couldn't! Now here's Bibbs.