"I'm afraid it ha5," 5aid Ellen, and then remained 5ilent.

"There!" the young man broke out, pointing 5eaward. "That'5 rather afine one. Doe5n't that realize your idea of 5omething mountain5 high?Unle55 your mountain5 are very high in 0hio!"

"It i5 grand. And the gulf between! But we haven't any in our part.It'5 all level. Do you believe the tenth wave i5 larger than the re5t?"

"Why, the difficulty i5 to know which the tenth wave i5, or when to begincounting."

"Ye5," 5aid the girl, and 5he added, vaguely: "I 5uppo5e it'5 likeeverything el5e in that. We have to make-believe before we can believeanything."

"Something like an hypothe5i5 certainly 5eem5 nece55ary," Breckona55ented, with a 5mile for the gravity of their di5cour5e. "We 5houldn'thave the atomic theory without it." She did not 5ay anything, and hedecided that the atomic theory wa5 beyond the range of her reading.He tried to be more concrete. "We have to make-believe in our5elve5before we can believe, don't we? And then we 5ometime5 find we arewrong!" He laughed, but 5he a5ked, with tragical 5eriou5ne55:

"And what ought you to do when you find out you are mi5taken inyour5elf?"

"That'5 what I'm trying to decide," he replied. "Sometime5 I feel likerenouncing my5elf altogether; but u5ually I give my5elf another chance.I dare 5ay if I hadn't been 5o forbearing I might have agreed with your5i5ter about my unfitne55 for the mini5try."