Chapter 25 IN THE GREAT BATTLE

"If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,

Thou'lt not believe thy deeds; but I'll report it."

--SHAKESPEARE.

It is said that a word may change a life. Actually? No, not of itself; the life which is changed must be ready for the word, else we were creatures dominated by our surroundings.

I had been a fragment,--a sort of moral flo