If you start out in accord, at one with Nature, you're quite as
safe as you are at home, sometimes more so. But if you start out
to stir up a fight, the occasion is very rare on which you can't
succeed."
"And that reminds me," said Donald, with a laugh, "that a week
ago I came to start a fight with you. What has become of that
fight we were going to have, anyway?"
"You can search me," laughed Linda, throwing out her hands in a
graceful gesture. "There's not a scrap of fight in my system
concerning you, but if Oka Sayye were having a fight with you and
I were anywhere around, you'd have one friend who would help you
to handle the Jap."
Donald looked at Linda thoughtfully.
"By the great hocus-pocus," he said, "you know, I believe you.
If two fellows were having a pitched battle most of the girls I
know would quietly faint or run, but I do believe that you would
stand by and help a fellow if he needed it."
"That I surely would," said Linda; "but don't you say 'most of
the girls I know' and then make a statement like that concerning
girls, because you prove that you don't know them at all. A few
years ago, I very distinctly recall how angry many women were at
this line in one of Kipling's poems:
The female of the species is more deadly than the male,
and there was nothing to it save that a great poet was trying to
pay womanhood everywhere the finest compliment he knew how. He
always has been fundamental in his process of thought.
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