No one could tell, at the moment, precisely why these variations occurred; though the reasons, generally, were well understood by all on board them.

"I wish the belt would slip at the power house, don't you?" "Why?" innocently.

kind Why are you kin to me?

"Then why notwhy shouldn't we?"

But how, and still more why, things in general behave so respectably and loyally, is a wonder which is either utterly inexplicable, or explicable, I hold, only on the old theory that they obey Some Onewhom we obey to a very limited extent indeed.

"I'm sorry for you, I" "Why?" sharply.

Moreover, 'I never could imagine why, if troops so far south

"I thoughtthen why do you" "Why?

And David said to him: Why dreadedst thou not to put thy hand forth to slay him that is anointed of God? David called one of his men, and bade him slay him.

When one sees what a difference he makes to so many people, and what a beautiful thing his life is, one wonders vaguely why, if God makes men as he wills, he does not make more of such natures.