A traveler, after losing his way in the mountain, took refuge for the at once that another bad preceded him and night in a cave, He When the was now warming himself before a fire of sticks and leaves. Be careful traveler entered, the other man said, "I'm an untouchable. not to stumble and fall against me," e traveler sat on the other side of the fire wa tching his mad companion. He wondered what differences honorable man and the other an outcast. Not seeing any physica difference between them, he thought pe aps the solution lay in another field. He said, "Tai me, do you fedi hote and joy and love, as 1 do? Are you capable or feeling hope and jealousy and regret "Yes, said the untouchable. "I feel all those things. I also fed shame, envy, sorrow and pity." And so the two men talked. They tried to discover some differences an untouchable and I am not?" and edded"Do you kh hy your much can see weare "No," said the other, "I only know I was an untouchable of parent who were like myself xThere was a long silence while the two men examined each othe across the fire. Finally the traveler said, "I wonder what would happe if I touched you The eyes of the traveler widened at his own audacity, and he sai You know-I'm going to touch you and find out." The outcast drew back against the wall and covered his eyes. The trova er stretched ou his arms and touched the untouchable. After a time the outcast oske in a frightened voice, "Did the mountain totter? Did the rivef dry Did the moon fall out of the sky?" Everything's precisely as it was before." "Nothing at all happened. e traveler said in astonishment