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"See here," he demanded, "who are you and where did you get that attitude toward life?" It was one he knew. It was the hard, relentless theory of the struggle of animal survival which his thinking in college had led him to accept. There was in it no touch of duty, no sense of obligation, and very little pity. He had called himself a hard materialist, and had never lived up to his theory. Now here beside him in this outlandish situation was a woman quietly arguing his own philosophy of life to him against herself. She laughed. "It's my way of thinking, and I mean it," she said, twisting her hair up on her head. "I got it out of four years of thought and reading in a college, and I do not thank the college for it. I find it very inconvenient, but it is my belief. I have tried to live by it." "So is it mine," he said, "and I mean to live by it." "Very well," she answered. "That aggressive tone against me is not necessary. Go ahead and get through if you can. Good-by, my friend