“She laughed, but said, ‘All right kid; go on and read it.’ I got it out of my pocket and began to read it, and she sat up and listened. When I had finished, she said, ‘You believe that, don’t you, son?’ I said, ‘Yes, I do.’ Then she said, ‘Well it sounds like sense to me, all right, and I am going to see what I can do about changing my consciousness. Tear up that order and bring me a big pitcher of orange-juice.’

“Then she asked me if she couldn’t have the letter. I told her I kept and studied all my letters, but if she really wanted it I would borrow the purser’s typewriter and make her a copy. She was pleased at that. So I made four copies that night—one for the Mrs. Robinson, one for the Captain, one for his friend, and the fourth for Guadalupe.

“Gee! I was excited and happy, Mrs. Robinson. And the Mrs. R. on the boat spruced right up and didn’t order any more liquor—at least when I was on shift, and when she got off the boat she was smiling and happy and looked Oh so different. And when we got to Vera Cruz, Guadalupe told me she had changed her mind and was not going on to Mexico City where she had intended to live with a man, but was going back to Havana and take a job that she was sure she could have there.

“I don’t suppose I will ever see these two women again, but they ought to stay with it and remember these truths, seeing how they changed their outlook and made them feel so happy.

“I am not sure that I will sail on this boat again, so I may not know what the Captain and his friend did, but I was just thinking if they passed on your letter, there is no telling where it will end. And of course it has opened my eyes a lot.

“Also I must tell you that I think taking this job was a wonderful leading, for I have made some valuable contacts. I am learning Spanish and I am quite sure that it will mean just the shore job for me that I have been wanting, when I have made a little more preparation in the way of perfecting my Spanish.”

I COUNT him great who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes and see things in their true light and in large relations. —Emerson.