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E11: suggests that they go out "under the skies", and he tells her that one can escape -:from the serfdom of their own tragic life dramas out in the open air.

Laura, heeitating, timid, rearnai, trembling and tln man half unwilling, grudging, yet stirred by an immense feeling of pity, go out together.

They tramp along together, neither of them saying a. word. For mi1es—-first through the city streets, and then into the park and on and on——-just welking, neither speaking, All about them flux like a keleidoscopic panorama the nnbmnnnxsmc seething throngs pass, and gradually as they walk Laura. begin to nxtxxinnk: look at the man beside him. The fever cools in her brain. A faint wistful iux syxnpathy for the man beside her surges through her. Hlitm:

New feelings have been

swaying the man also. He begins to question whether his absorption in his own troubles are not indicative of an immense ego- tism and selfishness. He wishes that it werr possible for one to emancipate himself fran the serfdom of his own ego. He realizes

that in the immense scheme of things ones personal sorrow should not be ones sole obsession. There are others in the world whose hearts and souls ache with an even deeper pang than his own --.-others who

have been forced into flames hotter than times that have shrivelled. his Qfi~ soul. And something of the old Doctor's fine and simple philosophy of life comes to haunt and reproach him. For nursing ones own troubles, fiercely brooding over and hugging them to ourselves is ngnfimmc a. form of ego.-ma.nia. peculiar to us all.

In the days that followed, the girl who had. suffered no end. the men who had been crucified met and walked together.

Strangely enough the details of hedr case were never gone into.