sight and then either commit suicide or accept the LITTLE 

 consequences it was all one ! And so laying plans to JOURNEYS 

 waylay his victim, he fell asleep, and dreamed he had 

 done the deed. 



He awoke in a sweat of horror! He heard the officers 

 at the door ! 



He staggered to his feet, and was making wild plans 

 to fight the pursuers, when it occurred to him that he 

 had only dreamed. 



He sat down, faint, but mightily relieved. 

 Then he laughed, and it came to him that opposition 

 was a part of the great game of life. To do a thing was 

 to jostle others, and to jostle and be jostled was the 

 fate of every man of power. " He that endureth unto 

 the end shall be saved." 



The world was before him the flowers still bloomed, 

 the plants nodded their heads in the meadows, the 

 summer winds blew across the fields of wheat, the 

 branches waved. He was strong he could plant and 

 plow, or dig ditches or hew lumber! 

 Some one was hammering on the door they had been 

 knocking for five minutes ah! There had been no 

 murder, so surely it was not the officers ! 

 He arose and opened the door, murmuring apologies. 

 A letter for Carolus Linnaeus ! 



The letter was from Baron Reuterholm of Dalecarlia. 

 It contained a draft for twenty-five pounds, " as a to- 

 ken of good faith," and begged that Linnaeus would 

 accept charge of an expedition to survey the natural 

 resources of Dalecarlia in the same way he had Lap- 



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