"Why do you say 'but'?" replied Pan.

"It is sheer, unredeemed animalism," continued his
visitor.

"It is any name you please to call it," replied Pan.

"You have proved nothing," the Philosopher shouted.

"What can be sensed requires no proof."

"You leave out the new thing," said the Philosopher.
"You leave out brains. I believe in mind above matter.
Thought above emotion. Spirit above flesh."

"Of course you do," said Pan, and he reached for his
oaten pipe.

The Philosopher ran to the opening of the passage and
thrust Caitilin aside. "Hussy," said he fiercely to her,
and he darted out.

As he went up the rugged path he could hear the pipes
of Pan, calling and sobbing and making high merriment
on the air.

CHAPTER XI

"SHE does not deserve to be rescued," said the Philoso-
pher, "but I will rescue her. Indeed," he thought a mo-